Lewis Hine

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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.

Literature
  • Judith Mara Gutman, Lewis W. Hine and the American Social Conscience, New York: Walker, 1967.
  • 
Russell Freeman 
Kids 
at 
Work:
 Lewis
 Hine
 and 
the 
Crusade 
Against
 Child 
Labor", Houghton 
Mifflin, 
1998; New York: Clarion Books, New York, 1994.
  • Tom Hankin, "Put an End to the Exploitation of Child Labor", Pictures of child labor by Lewis W. Hine, ISA Today (magazine), Jan. 1996: 73-75.
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