"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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Columbia University alumniPhotographers from the United StatesUniversity of Chicago alumniSociologists from the United StatesJournalists from Wisconsin
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In 1908, quoted in "Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor", National Archives (February 21, 2017)
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