"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."

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Source: Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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Lewis Hine

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Lewis Hine was a pioneering photographer whose work focused on social reform, particularly in exposing child labor and advocating for workers' rights.

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