Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
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Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Michael Burgan (Author), anonymous (Narrator), Capstone Publishers, Inc. (Publisher)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
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Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working conditions to light.

Hine and his fellow Progressives wanted to end child labor. He knew photography would reveal the truth and teach and change the world. With his camera, Hine showed people what life was like for immigrants, the poor, and the children working in mines, factories, and mills. In the words of an historian, the more than 7,000 photos Hine took of American children at work aroused public sentiment against child labor in a way that no printed page or public lecture could.

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  1. Listening Length
    1 hour and 3 minutes
  2. Author
    Michael Burgan
  3. Narrator
    anonymous
  4. Audible release date
    March 16, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Capstone Publishers, Inc.
  7. ASIN
    B09V97D2BL
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 1 hour and 3 minutes
Author Michael Burgan
Narrator anonymous
Audible.com Release Date March 16, 2022
Publisher Capstone Publishers, Inc.
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09V97D2BL
Best Sellers Rank #333 in Teen & Young Adult 19th Century United States History

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Kay Tippett
5.0 out of 5 stars Breaker Boys for the Classroom
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2014
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I plan to use this book to help introduce nonfiction in the classroom. The book shows that people can effect change in society by using their individual talents. The pictures are powerful, and the length of the book is adequate for classroom activities. I am well pleased.
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J. Boggs
5.0 out of 5 stars Hine was agreat documentarian brave, honest and artfulas well.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2021
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Lewis Hine uses all his wiles and every measure of subterfuge to insert himself and his cameras into all those shameful places where children, often young, both boys, and yes girls are toiling away, often from dark to dark, with few breaks for 6 or 7 days a week for meager compensation. Sounds like a dickensenesque cliche? His pictures when eventually published caused a furor of sorts in reform communities, yet reform was very slow in coming. You see a large group of boys just emerging from a mine and your are startled by the look on their faces, of a grim, conditioned hopelessness is a look you have never before seen except in middle-aged men. These boys are determined to keep living but to a life without hope. Not for the weak at heart, I recommend the book for many reasons but above all because it is the truth and is a truth still not widely known and with implications not yet fully understood.
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William J. Hecht
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth a look
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2016
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Great photos and an interesting tale about the photographer. Since i have antecedents who were Breaker Boys and Miners in Pa it is most interesting but only a small part of the difficult lives they led.
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Karen Singrey
5.0 out of 5 stars More history
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023
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How appalling this kind of “work” went on. Seems unreal today, but we know it happened!
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Big Time Book Junkie
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for my grandson
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014
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Purchased this paperback for our grandson as it was required reading for something called Battle of the Books. His mom and dad couldn't find a copy anywhere in their very small, Alaskan community. Our grandson did enjoy the book, it was delivered quickly and was in great shape.

Since I didn't read the book I can only rate it on what he told me. He's 11.
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reeser23
5.0 out of 5 stars Great pictures
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014
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Beautiful and sad BOOK. Great purchase for those who love history.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great.
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2019
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Great story and pictures.
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Randolph A McCord
4.0 out of 5 stars for the classroom
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2019
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I keep this in my middle school class collection for silent sustained reading.
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