In the 1800s, the capitalists justified the exploitation of child labor on the grounds that it would “prevent the habitual idleness and degeneracy” and teach “habits of industry,” as one ...

The story of the child labor resurgence, as told in the New York Times, is that the Trump and Biden administrations’ crackdowns on undocumented family migration at the southern border have ...

A young Alabama boy born in the late 1800s and nicknamed Shorpy is one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to abolish child labor at the beginning of the 20th century.