The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908–1918, provides insight into everyday life in North Carolina textile mills and mill villages.

In 1908 photographer Lewis Hine began visiting textile mills in North Carolina to document the exploitation of child workers. Though child labor was common at the time, Hine and other reformers wanted people to see just how horrible working conditions were for many children.

The Photography of Lewis Hine concludes with a look at child labor today. Whether it is young migrant farmworkers toiling in our state or millions of children laboring in Asian cotton fields or on African tobacco and cocoa plantations, the struggle continues.

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