Lost youth - Vintage Pixs of Children Laborers

[packman]

NOTE: Site has annoying floating banner, but pixs are worth viewing:

https://flashbak.com/heartbreaking-photographs-child-labour-united-states-lewis-hine-389173/

[FSogol]

1. My two grandfathers came to PA from Ireland and ended up in the coal mines.

This pic could be my family's pictures:



Luckily, they escaped. One started boxing and made enough money to start a bricklaying business and the other joined the CCC.

[packman]

5. And my father and his brother from Austro-Hungary

in SouthWest Pennsylvania coal mines, father later went into glass factory and uncle into the steel mills. Mother at age 14 taken out of school to work. They sent their children to school and college to have better lives.

[FSogol]

2. Everyone should take a look at these pictures. Liberals ended these practices & the GOP considers

this the good old days. Paul Ryan and the other fucks in the GOP want us to go back to these days where businesses reigned supreme and workers had no rights.

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t

[DK504]

4. This what the Rethugs want for anyone that makes less than

million a year.

[FSogol]

6. Exactly. n/t

[Boxerfan]

7. 2nd pic-the guy "observing" has a wacking stick in his hand.

Y'know-motivation!.

I collect old pocket watches. I don't have any older "fusee" equipped models. But basically a fuse chain is a very small bicycle style chain.

Due to the minute parts & intricate work to assemble children-less than 10 years of age-were the preferred worker. And the local orphanages profited from the labor till it was banned.

And now they can be very scarce-put them kids back to work dagnabit!

[Fla Dem]

8. Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in Manhattan 1911. Turning point in workplace regulation.

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in Manhattan. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English, working 12 hours a day, every day. In 1911, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it, even in the best of circumstances." It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English, working 12 hours a day, every day. "

The danger of fire in factories like the Triangle Shirtwaist was well-known, but high levels of corruption in both the garment industry and city government generally ensured that no useful precautions were taken to prevent fires. Blanck and Harris already had a suspicious history of factory fires. The Triangle factory was twice scorched in 1902, while their Diamond Waist Company factory burned twice, in 1907 and in 1910. It seems that Blanck and Harris deliberately torched their workplaces before business hours in order to collect on the large fire-insurance policies they purchased, a not uncommon practice in the early 20th century. While this was not the cause of the 1911 fire, it contributed to the tragedy, as Blanck and Harris refused to install sprinkler systems and take other safety measures in case they needed to burn down their shops again.

http://www.history.com/topics/triangle-shirtwaist-fire

https://www.osha.gov/oas/trianglefactoryfire.html