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This is a newspaper talking about the new child labor laws that Lewis Hines help enforce with this inspiring social issue photos. Attempts at child labor reform continued, aided by the widespread publicity from Hines photographs. As a result, many states passed stricter laws banning the employment of underage children. In 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, better known as the Federal Wage and Hour Law. The Act was declared constitutional in 1941 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Act set a work week of 40 hours, with a minimum wage of 40 cents per hour. It prohibited child labor under age 16 while allowing minors 16 and over to work in non-hazardous occupations. The Act set 18 as the minimum age for work in industries classified as hazardous. No minimum age was set for non-hazardous agricultural employment after school hours and during vacations. Children aged 14 and 15 could be employed in non-manufacturing, non-mining, and non-hazardous occupations outside of school hours and during vacations for limited hours.

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Riis gave talks to promote his message, and used the “magic lantern” technique using a projector and photographic plates projected onto a white sheet. Here he has hand colored one of his most famous images “Bandits Roost”, showing the hang out of convicted murderers. The image creates an almost pantomime look, which may have impressed live audiences.

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This image shows Riis’s use of flash. The high contrast is due to the technicalities of using the new flash powder. Imagine how surprised the subjects would have been as the flash went off. It’s said the scenes were often captured quickly and without permission. The surprise element of the flash allowed a safe escape for Riis and his accomplices.

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Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine were among the first social reformers to use photography to document the effects of industrialization and urbanization on working-class Americans. Their work brought the need for housing and labor reform to the attention of legislators and the public. Both men worked tirelessly to improve the lives of America's working-class citizens.

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This picture is one of my favorites because of the beautiful New York city in the background.

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Suspended in graceful sangfroid, the steelworker symbolizes daring technical innovation of the sort Daedalus embodied in Greek legend. While Daedulus flew the middle course between sea and sky safely, his son Icarus flew too close to the sun and perished. The optimism of this image suggests that it was not Icarus's folly but his youth and his ability to fly that prompted Hine's title.

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Derrick and workers on girder, Empire State Building

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Derrick and workers on girder, Empire State Building

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In Hine’s vertiginous series of photos of the Empire State Building’s construction, he shot men performing perilous tasks perched on beams and hanging from wires. Times’ art critic Ken Johnson once wrote the photographs reflect Hine’s ‘romantic belief in the possibilities of America’

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Later he was employed on a more uplifting project – to photograph the American State Building project. Stunning images of the workers in obvious danger assembling the building high in the sky – often putting himself in danger on the precarious structures.

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Hine’s Ellis Island images were shot with a Graflex camera. He often had to overcome language barriers in the process of locating his subjects, finding an isolated place to shoot them, and setting the pose

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Italian family on the ferry boat landing at Ellis Island

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Italian family on the ferry boat landing at Ellis Island

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Hine photographed immigrants at Ellis Island from 1904 to 1909, taking some 200 photographs in all. The work has drawn comparisons to that of Jacob Riis, the Danish-American social photographer and journalist who chronicled the lives of impoverished people on New York City’s Lower East Side.

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Italian family on the ferry boat landing at Ellis Island

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Italian family on the ferry boat landing at Ellis Island

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Hine photographed immigrants at Ellis Island from 1904 to 1909, taking some 200 photographs in all. The work has drawn comparisons to that of Jacob Riis, the Danish-American social photographer and journalist who chronicled the lives of impoverished people on New York City’s Lower East Side.

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 Italian family in the baggage room, Ellis Island

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 Italian family in the baggage room, Ellis Island

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Hine is often called a ‘social photographer’, and when he worked at the Ethical Culture School in New York City one of his assignments was to document immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. He hoped the work would make viewers have ‘the same regard for contemporary immigrants as they have for pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock’

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This newspaper gives a detailed outline of Lewis Hines life and how he helped with child labor reform.

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Hine emphasizes machinery and musculature. ‘The visual appeal of the photo is rather direct and stunning,’ Daile Kaplan, vice-president of photographs at Swann galleries, told The Hot Bid. ‘It has harmony, it has visual balance, and at the same time, he positions the worker in a way that he’s controlling the machine. It reflects a new visual vocabulary that addresses the machine age, but it privileges the person with the machine’.

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Breaker boys would separate impurities from coal by hand. ‘There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work,’ said Lewis Hine.`

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Hine’s work centralizing child workers was part of the progressive ideology of the era. Which joined, among others, social workers, labour leaders, suffragists, and teachers in the hopes of bringing about meaningful reform for children.

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In 1908, Hine was commissioned by the National Child Labour Committee to begin documenting young workers across the country. At the time, children were regularly employed on family farms, but Hine’s photographs brought attention to their work as miners, mill workers, and oyster shuckers, and eventually helped lead to the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. This is what began his journey to the amazing photographer he is.

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Lewis Wickes Hine was an American Sociologist and photographer. He photographed images from cotton mills of Carolina to coal breakers in Pennsylvania. He helped change child labor laws. Some of his other worked included portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island and construction workers at the Emprie State Building. Following is some of his most famous pictures.