Labor Laws for Child
On 25 April 1904, The National Child Labor Committee was organized at a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Both
men and women were concerned with the dilemma with children who were working.
The group repositioned swiftly to form an administration in order to identify
the extent scale of the problem and with hopes to gain the support of prominent
Americans. The NCLC was chartered in 1907 by an Act of Congress. It immediately began to gain support by move towards action and advocacy. One of the first steps took place in early 1908 with the hiring of Lewis Wickes Hine, a photographer. The photographs Hines took would awaken the consciousness of the nation, and change the reality of life for millions of children who were poor. (4)
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