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Images about Child Labor

6 images from works
  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • A child serving behind the counter of a chemists and offering advice to a female customer. Wood engraving.
  • Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.
  • An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.
  • China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.
  • A young woman carrying a bundle of ferns on her back. Engraving by Edward Burton after Robert Herdman.

Works from the collections

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    An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 15722i
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    Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 11879i
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    Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of His Majesty, August 1950.

    | Great Britain. Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet | Date: 1950
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    References on child labor and minors in industry, 1916-1924 / compiled by Laura A. Thompson.

    | Thompson, Laura Amelia. | Date: 1925
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    Climbing boys, childhood, and society in nineteenth-century England / Peter G. Clamp.

    | Clamp, Peter G. | Date: 1984
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