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. Es

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.