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So, are we now going to normalize child labor? Or why is it news worthy that people staged and faked photographs for ages now?

• TehCorwiz 3y ago
  There was a series of photos taken of actual children at work in factories that is directly responsible for inciting the public backlash against child labor. Especially below market rate labor which undermines adult wages. Those photos and the journalism that framed the situation were pivotal at the time. I don’t remember the photographer or journalist at this moment but I’ll try to look it up later. These articles are meant to attack the validity of photos of children working of the era to undermine the historical establishment of child labor laws at a time when the same laws are under modern threat.
  • cratermoon 3y ago
    Lewis Hine https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/child-miners-lewis-hine/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/child-miners-lewis-hine/
• garyfirestorm 3y ago
  I don’t believe it is normalizing child labor. If you read the article in its entirety it does talk about children working in mines and photos like these help establish child labor laws. However this piece should have added more context. It could use statistics on how many children worked in mines, what happened to them in later life, how it affected their growth and development. I think it’s just substandard low effort piece of journalism.
• anigbrowl 3y ago
  It's just a fact checking article, chill out.