Posted on 04/12/2012 11:02:52 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Lewis Hine is most famous for his photographs of the construction workers who helped build the Empire State Building in 1930.
But in the years before he celebrated the heroic labour of these men working high above Manhattan, Hine used his photographs to campaign for social reform.
In 1908 the then-sociology professor was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document how children as young as seven were working in cotton mills and coal mines.
Over a decade he took thousands of photographs that helped convince US lawmakers to introduce new industrial regulations to protect children.
Alison Nordstrom, senior curator of photographs of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, talked to the BBC about the new book of this historic photographer's work, entitled simply Lewis Hine.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
...In 1930, black unemployment was a full percentage point lower than whites, even in a time of more racism. The reason was that blacks were barred from union membership, so could more easily underbid unionized whites for jobs. Even in the post-bellum South, 80% of low-skilled laborers were black. The Davis-Bacon Act, the first federal legislation on minimum wages, was specifically intended by its drafters to restrict blacks from federal construction contracts, which they had previously dominated. The subsequent Wagner Act and other New Deal legislation further shut out blacks from trades. 1930 was the last year that black unemployment was lower than whites. In 2011, twice as many blacks are unemployed as whites, as a percentage of population.
AT LEAST THOSE KIDS WERE WORKING..........
What!.. what... did I say something WRONG?..
Nevermind then....
The BBC is running the article because there is a new book on Hine out. A fact the article (and even my excerpt) makes clear. Wind in the paranoia, mate.
I wasn’t questioning your excerpt. I was questioning the title the BBC gave the article. There is no paranoia from me. I just get a tad defensive when a county starts disparaging mine with snarkey titles to their stories. I know all about Hine and his photography. It’s good stuff. But when, in this case, the BBC uses it to slam the US, yeah, I get a bit upset. And again, maybe the BBC should do some articles on the UK’s child labour disgrace. Those kids from the South did it voluntarily. During the 1800’s in England kids were sold by orphanages and debt prisons to work in English textile mills under more horrific circumstances than what went on in the US. Mate.
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