The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:Italian family doing piecework at home in New York, about 1910. Sweatshops in the home, where the women and children could work conveniently, were very common.
Citation:Lewis Hine photo. Courtesy of the The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, 900 East Ave., Rochester, NY, 14607. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Museum. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 7, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 93. 11.2.1
Standard:11.2-1.00 the effect of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the treatment of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

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