You can watch all of our existing episodes of Darkroom in one playlist here: bit.ly/321DvzO What historic photos or events would you want to see covered in the future?
Vox, love what they have to say or not, has some of the best editing on youtube. It's absolutely stunning and unless you have someone point it out or edit video yourself you'll never notice it. Like if you listen they add little clicks reminiscent of typewriters every time they recite a quote and add paper flipping noises when pictures come up. And i didn't even notice the film grain they added until the second time through watching it.
Every single person in those photos, foreground, background, photographer- they’re all dead. It makes me think, what sort of world do I want to leave behind? What am I doing with this life I have been given? Every moment of every day I have a choice to lift others up, spread joy and sit with another’s suffering, to listen, to validate, to heal, to gently pry apart my own fears and mend my own pain just as I may do for another. And so what am I doing? We all have this choice. Maybe for all those reading, we can change ourselves and change the world, too. The people around us will change as we do, and maybe this will, with time and grace, heal us all.
Very true, child labour is a thing everywhere in the world. Let it be Germany, the US, Russia, China, everywhere. So to say it's not anymore is.. respectless. You say it tells a story, which they very well do. Thanks for a realistic comment on here.
Yeah, a lot of them never got to experience life and suffered both when they were children and as adults due to Child Labour and The Great War, respectively.
@@privateer_am no wonder the ones that survived did so much for their kids and were so focussed on having a 'proper' life. Makes the 50s seem a bit more humane and less superficial.
@@ms.rstake_1211 Yeah, we make the 50s sound very negative, with the Cold War and all, and kinda forget the humans of that era and the positive impact they had.
@@Kanelle88 there are still some people in this comment section that argued with people about how child labor was okay and or neccessary like... what ???
@@kittenmimi5326 I don't think I've seen those comments but the closest thing I've seen is someone which claimed that parents giving children chores is okay and I agree as long as they're not too harsh like chopping a tree down
As terrible as it feels to see these old photos of children in such horrible working conditions, it's even more terrible to see one in such state in real life. I grew up in a third-world country (Philippines), and I saw and still see a lot of child laborers everywhere. It's heart-breaking! If only the government could help put the children to school and give financial support for them, so they wouldn't have to work so hard to earn their way to school anymore.
To think that even after 100 years, this video is still very relevant at this time and age, but only in different countries. *i want my cheap clothes, as long as it's not my children making them*
Fortunately we're slowing progressing. Every year there are more new laws coming up and being pushed in 3rd world countries to totally ban and prohibited child labor. The 3rd world countries of now are basically Europe and North America of the early 1800, they see how wrong this is and slowly realize that it must be stopped.
@@pretzels713 many of those familys woud probley starve to death if they didnt work.......in many cases of so called sweat shops around the world that few cents a day is good money in that economy where otherwise they would be prostituting and robbing ppl.
And it is coming back in countries like Guatemala. Kids work..coerced by parents. I have 2nd hand knowledge of this... my best friends daughter who refuses to talk/write with her "bio mom" because her younger sister was taken out of school to work. In India children are forced to work in small tunnels.
this is why we need government regulation. When humans are left to their own vices you get stuff like this. When ppl and companies get so much money they’ll start to not care about the conditions for their workers and eventually the quality of their products.
Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka... all over South Asia... the British and largely European invaders came, looted, plundered, pillaged, terrified and left so silently, leaving us, once sprawling Kingdoms to pick up scraps to make our lives from.
PJ but it took at least 100 years to abolish child labor. Today's problems are NOTHING in comparison to those horrific problems. Child labor is basically slavery and tell me how long did it take to get abolished? Humans are very, very slow to act when something unjust conflict with their interests. Do you think all suffering came to an end with the child labor laws? What about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911?
I studied his photography in high school. Among the finest humanist portrait photography in his generation, in my opinion, and all the more for his subjects being children.
So many issues in the US have only been truly rooted out after famous pictures are taken that catch public eye. It's a shame that almost nothing is done by the government until they are almost forced to. I will always have a great deal of admiration for the photographers who seek out these problems to try and raise public awareness.
The photographer in question would not have as resounding success as he did without the government’s Child Labor Committee tasking him with this mission. A shame we don’t have another one now at a time when child labor law violations run rampant in chains, franchises, and other national or even international businesses.
What a fantastic man - his thorough descriptions and fantastic framing truly captivated the audience and helped transform and eradicate American child labour
Elendiger Uhrensohn the topic is it’s impact on America - if the photos were taken in the UK, it’s still within the context of being viewed in America.
As the father of a 3 year old, I couldn't imagine sending him off to work in a damn factory all day. How did we ever think this was a good idea? Capitalism at its best.
It's called necessity, if you were a starving parent trying to make ends meet, you would actually consider sending your kid to a sweatshop so the both of you can pool your funds and get by. That era was abusive and cruel but it paved the way for progress and without it we wouldn't be having better standards of living today.
In my home country of the netherlands my great grandmother had 12 kids. All of which were working at the age of 5/6. She died a healthy life of 102 years old and was tough as nails. Even drank a beer on her 100th birthday. That's just how times were. In Germany there were family's of people that worked in the mines were living in literally mud houses dugged into the ground close to the mining area. White privilage!
As far as the whole thing about photos being a “lever for the social uplift” you should consider that at this point in history camera technology was fairly new and people were not swarmed with images of humanitarian crisis as they are today
He was part of the progressive movement, as it says in the video. We need political movements for difficult times (climate and poverty). People don't achieve these things on their own. Never.
But he didnt, he did initiate the beginning of ending child labour in more dangerous settings..and got many back to school. However, then came WW1, needed labour when men went to war, same thing in WW11. Maybe most child labour ended in some ways, but was resurrected in war times. My Uncle worked in nickel mines age 13 in the 40's. My mom age 10 helped her Mom with heavy care for sick patients in their home. Bathing, feeding, dressing sounds etc. I worked on farms all summer or waitressed or babysat starting age 11, babysitting from same for money to give to our family income. It just wasn't as noticeable, unless one didn't go to school. But of course nothing like the industrial age child labour for most children.
For a minute, I literally have no words to say about the quality of this mini documentary (any better terms? CMIIW). A great effort in research, in the scripting, and in the editing. It's just spectacular. Thank you, Vox, for making the unseen now being noticed by everyone, from literally everywhere. I would love to be a part of the production team if one day Vox Indonesia happens :)
We need these kinds of humanizing pictures of the children we have in cages right now. If social photography makes that big of a difference then let's act on it! We will find a way to end this horror!
Unfortunately, people are more cynical of the truth in photos nowadays. We're more aware on how photos can be manipulated to distort the truth, a reality that unscrupulous right-wingers would be the first to exploit as an argument.
@@theresecoco1887 hmm maybe these people were fleeing religious and political persecution, and possible could have died had they not crossed the border?? and many don't actually know that they're crossing the border illegally, they hear from their neighbors that you can 'seek asylum,' and that's what they're trying to do. before they can even be warned the border patrol rips their children from their hands... maybe we should show compassion for these children... maybe cause, it's not their fault????
More people should spread pictures of homeless people sleeping out in the streets during the winter. For some strange reason, the homeless shelters refuse to let them stay indoors during the daytime. It's inhumane to treat people this way.
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The newest laws in the USA are dehumanizing. Our standard of care for women giving birth is low..more women and babies are dying now in the USA.. go look up mortality stats.
@@cindyqueen7228 that has nothing to do with progressives, democrats or else. it is a systemic issue. (abortion, if youre trying to adress that, is not included in those stats)
Amanda Kotsubo Child labour still is accepted. Just because it doesn't happen in the western world, doesn't mean it isn't there. Your Adidas shoes were probably made by a child in Malaysia and you just don't know it
Xue Rong Chin Nuclear bomb, yes. However nuclear energy is currently the best type of energy we have. It is safe, clean, efficient, powerful, and available in extreme quantities. If the public wasn’t scared of it, it would easily be the solution to electricity generation. 1 kg of uranium, when used in a powerplant, creates the same amount of energy as 14.5 tons. So arround 14 500 times as much energy as coal.
Thank you for this! As a photographer I would’ve loved to have had a talk with this photographer and learned how the experience was in these times. Every image he took in this era had a huge impact in history and really shows how powerful photography and visual representation is. Thank you Vox.
Yes, and exactly why these kinds of stories need to be told. We look back now and say "What were we thinking". 100 years from now we'll look back at today and say the same thing.
This is superb content with excellent history telling. As a photographer myself, it speaks volumes to the simple fact that a picture can express so much story and drama that transcribes culture and language. Great job Vox!
I am. The fact that Iowa rolled back child labor protections at all is horrifying. That they did this at 4 o'clock in the morning is telling. If they thought they were doing the right thing for children, why act under the cover of darkness?
My dad grew up working in the cotton fields with all the other children. This was in the 1950s. Child labor continued in agricultural communities for a while. I don’t think my mom grew up picking crops but I could be wrong, my grandma was a tenant farmer, and the guy she worked for basically gave them barely enough to get by, they were essentially trapped until the factories really came around, after which they saved money and went up north.
My 2 brothers who were close in age to me born during that same decade at around age 8 or so got hired on for pennies to work the farm nearby the city where we lived too. I felt upset and angry that I didn't get hired to work alongside of them. Was that only because it was after I led the 3 of us prior to that in an attempt to run away from home only because I didn't believe in the most common at the time method being used by a whole lot of fathers and school principles too both on and off of reserves to spank students too at the time?
Amazed how he used photography as a tool to enlight the government and all the people, also amazed by his technique how he photographed. Ill be binge wstching your Darkroom series, thank you for sharing this
The first thing that crossed my mind was that this man was a hero. His work impacted the lives of millions. You ask to sugest a topic, you can consider the Mexican Revolution.
Thanks you for making this mini documentaries, Darkroom is the reason I follow Vox and have the paid subscription. I love photography and the stories of how it changed the world. Congratulations for the amazing work you did in S1, every episode made me drop a tear and smile at the same time. I’ll be patiently waiting for S2. Never stop producing Darkroom, the quality, narrative and how you pack it all together is a simple and digestible video is AMAZING.
2:01 i remember my grandparents taking me to see Lackawanna coal mine when I was 9 years old and the pictures of children working scared me so much. It was such a creepy place to be
Thank you so much for a great series! I'm a photographer and it means so much to me that you dove into a history that I love; something many people don't realize influenced reform in many areas in the 20th century. Please keep making more :)
I really love this video, like a lot. Darkroom in general, but specifically, the child labor photographs and how you included information about the photographer and his mezmorizing and humanizing techniques.
My mother as a child and teen picked cotton to make money. It was not mandatory, but being poor her and her siblings where more than happy to do it. I believe harvest time of cotton is spring/ summer. It was very hard work in very hot weather. This was in the 50's.
Labor laws for farming a not as strict since historically and for most farm today they need their children to help run the farm. It's too big for one man and hiring farm hands year round is too expensive especially if it's not a giant commerical farm
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I commented in another video portraying the hardship of child labor (same pics) and how hard it must had for them., It is a relief to know that those pictures had changed their life since.. Bless the photographer
@@briantheduckgod2714 which were terrible times for black Americans, which highlights the problem with nostalgia politics. The past is seldom as great as we'd like to tell ourselves
Tyler Warren Ellis A part of the time that continues on though different kids and equally disturbing circumstances. Pray for America's unborn and children; pray for the world's unborn and little children.
@@briantheduckgod2714 the only reason the 50's were "great" was because it was after WWII and we were the only country that didn't have to rebuild. Nothing exists in a bubble, gotta have context man.
What are they supposed to do in that case, though. If people need work and education isn't available, they'll take anything they can. It's a complicated issue.
Exactly. So I do believe that India and many other 3rd World countries will slowly progress and prohinite once for all this practice. There are already many countries were new laws for ban child labor are starting to be studied by their respective governments and being trying to be approved. 3rd world countries are now what Europe and North America were 200-100 years ago. Eventually all the world progress as their economy progress as well. And as Anthony says, isn't that easy neither. Have in mind that in many of these countries Public Schools and Healtcare aren't even a thing, people lives everyday like if it was the last one for them. At soon that Public Education, Public healthcare and the National Economy started to improve in the old 1st world people started to be able to focus in improve their rights in every sense. We can't change an unfair world in one day, but slowly, day by day, giving our best for the others we eventually make it better.
@@QueenLadyQ Speaking English is not a requirement to work in America. Is it polite to know how? Yeah. But the person's language does not change the quality of work unless their job mostly involves speaking to people
@@youtubealtaccount7163 ok to your point, we see people working everywhere who can't speak English. That is obviously. But what type of job is it? What is the real requirements notice I stated *REAL* A Friend of mine was turned down from a government jobs because the interviewee said she didn't pronounce certain words correctly. When it comes to customer service it's required. Imagine living in North America, your bank account was hacked , you call you bank and the person doesn't speak English. When we first opened up this Hotel 15 years ago, my little sister and her little white friends all got customer service positions. while some black people in our area did not qualify. So they were offered a less paying job back of the house positions or something equivalent to cleaning. because they didn't speak the "Queen's English" I helped conduct basic interviews. When it comes to customer service positions especially face to face contact with customers it's required. Not just where I work but everywhere. Black have been turned away for years because of the no proper English no job. So Now these folks come in and they waive the rule. It's obvious that you don't have to speak English for certain jobs. We are working around tons of illegal immigrants who don't speak English but working when our citizens should be. Prime example about 9 years ago my Ex boyfriend's Brother who is Mexican applied for the same job (banquet server) at another location ( major hotel chain) I went with him because my friend was the director there , he was strong and physically abled and a legal immigrant. My friend told me because his English wasn't up to par, he was not qualified for the position. He was working our company anyway doing clean up work. But some how this same company years later and other Hotels are providing opportunities for temporary workers, who are illegal immigrants, who don't speak English the same position today. It's not fair to the customers. people are allergic to certain things and they can't answers a simple but serious question. We have had incidents because of this. One time they told a Jewish couple there's only one type meal lobster tails and they can't eat shellfish. During our pre meetings we go over our alternative menu for religion, vegetarians, and allergies. But how do you serve people when cant convey this message. When Customers ask for an alternative meal and they only respond you can give is no. a few weeks ago a lady was just sitting there with her hands folded nicely and her whole table was eating I just so happened to be walking by and ask her what she needed. she said I will eat later on I am vegan I will something later on to eat it was already late. So Her company sent her to the conference paid for her meal(s) and she was told no by one of our temp staff. I explained that we indeed offer an vegan option and she didn't have to wander around a strange town looking for food at night. The other day 3 or 4 of them decided to they were tired hadn't worked 8 hours yet. But the band hired by the conference was nice enough to listen to so let's all go sit down with the paying customers and enjoy the band. The manager caught them. They hide in the bathrooms and go outside we are constantly trying to get them to task but they refuse... only listen to the manager. When we are assigned team leaders who divvy out responsibilities. I I am glad I am just there a few days out of the week. I don't have the patience to work in this environment every day. The clean up crew shuts things down when they are ready not when we ask them to so they can go home early. Dishes are left for their morning crew. Never happened when the young American citizens were there. Our manager is from Souvlaki said she is feed up with them. I told to go to HR or the department heads who call these temporary workers in and Express her concerns. Because there's American citizens from temp agency who we have worked with not as often (more money) but they do a much better job. Our equipment is located on several floors. Needless to say it takes us longer to set up and break down when they arrive. They aren't worth the money. Or should I say you get what you pay for. The only people happy is the owners and the shareholders who are making big profits off of cheap labor. To me it's slavery 2.0
4:25 just breaks my heart... 😞 I have a little sister about that age and the fact the literal *children* were forced to work is just messed up. We’re so privelaged
Here in MA, the town I live in a hundred years ago was a mill town, and had a ton of child workers who could barely speak English, who came from Poland and from French speaking parts of Canada, and Lewis Hine actually came here and took pictures.
I'am more curious how they got such information and footage, using the same distinctive style, like old newspaper article, photograph and video. But yeah, the editing is what really makes the content has it own uniqueness, I think they have their preset in after effect for that.
Photographs are incredibly powerful and important! Especially in regard to injustice. Now with widespread availability and usage of cell phone cameras, LOTS of injustices are known and documented! Very good!
In countries like China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines child labour is still being practiced on a very large scale. UN should really do something about this.
Ive been working for as long as I can remember. I started out small with my dad, helping him around the construction and often times the docks, and By the time I turned 13 I signed my first legal contract as a light work laborer in a logistics company (we helped people move and delivered packages). By the time i was 15, i had already met dozens of different customers and travelled through most of western and central Europe, in various countries such as Germany, France, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Holland and so on, and I was paid around 9 euros an hour for the first two years. I slowly started to gain salary, and By the time I did my last moving gig, I was 19 years old and had enough money to help my family pay the bills and buy myself a new computer. Not gonna lie, the work was hard most days, but it all paid off in the company I spent my working days in. So if theres anything I truly miss, its the good hearted company of honest working men and the sweat of the same honest work.
@@cohlinegarnet8313 "sO YOu sUPpoRT CHilD lABoR?" Point me where I said it was accetable. Obviously no, but when you dont have as many options in life, can you blame the ones that dedicate themselves to that kind of lifestyle? Also in my defense, teaching kids about the importance of work and work ethics helps them grow a proper spine, as you steadily begin to see how individual needs self-sufficiency in order to Make it in life.
@@cohlinegarnet8313he said he worked with his dad ..which would be more like being taught a couple of different trades that worked out for him in the end..that's not like whatever was going on in this video..I suppose he didn't see what he did as child labor and more of he was being taught how to be a man
Who would of thought almost 120 years later your work would be receiving credibility on a platform you never thought would exist. If this man was doing this type of photography in the modern world he would blow up.
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What historic photos or events would you want to see covered in the future?
The Zealy/Agassiz photos
Those weird post-mortem family portaits
The Falling Soldier by Robert Capa and Siagon Execution by Eddie Adams
The falling man
The first picture ever taken ”View from the Window at Le Gras”
Can we just talk about the editing on this?? First 1 minute just gets you immediately enchanted
yup i agree, wonderfully made.
shelby ikr? I wish I was that good at telling stories...
Vox, love what they have to say or not, has some of the best editing on youtube. It's absolutely stunning and unless you have someone point it out or edit video yourself you'll never notice it. Like if you listen they add little clicks reminiscent of typewriters every time they recite a quote and add paper flipping noises when pictures come up. And i didn't even notice the film grain they added until the second time through watching it.
The effort that went into aligning the faces on that fast cut scene really caught my eye.. I'm surprised other people noticed the editing...
I actually felt like I was there and it was happening today for a second
Then remembered that it IS probably still going on but more secretly
the photos are sad but somewhat beautiful, they really do tell a story
I agree
Every single person in those photos, foreground, background, photographer- they’re all dead.
It makes me think, what sort of world do I want to leave behind? What am I doing with this life I have been given? Every moment of every day I have a choice to lift others up, spread joy and sit with another’s suffering, to listen, to validate, to heal, to gently pry apart my own fears and mend my own pain just as I may do for another. And so what am I doing?
We all have this choice. Maybe for all those reading, we can change ourselves and change the world, too. The people around us will change as we do, and maybe this will, with time and grace, heal us all.
pepe True
Very true, child labour is a thing everywhere in the world. Let it be Germany, the US, Russia, China, everywhere. So to say it's not anymore is.. respectless.
You say it tells a story, which they very well do. Thanks for a realistic comment on here.
@@zain4019 bruh
It’s weird to imagine these photos in color
Any black and white photo from the past will be weird with colour
@@schoidz5066 watch vox's video on colorized images
Link??
yep,its kinda sad,they didnt invent colors back then,imagine only living in a black and white world :(
Edmund Ng that’s why there was so much more racism 😧!
Don’t worry guys these people probably eventually grew up and were rewarded with dying in WW1
Yeah, a lot of them never got to experience life and suffered both when they were children and as adults due to Child Labour and The Great War, respectively.
@@privateer_am no wonder the ones that survived did so much for their kids and were so focussed on having a 'proper' life. Makes the 50s seem a bit more humane and less superficial.
@@ms.rstake_1211 Yeah, we make the 50s sound very negative, with the Cold War and all, and kinda forget the humans of that era and the positive impact they had.
@@privateer_am and don't forget the Great Depression right afterwards
@ls7orBust2 they are also borderline proslavery
I am impressed by this comment section. Many sane people with different opinions all debating respectfully. Shame you dont see that very often.
That's because it's pretty much a resolved issue. Not many people believe child labor to this extreme is right.
@@Kanelle88 there are still some people in this comment section that argued with people about how child labor was okay and or neccessary like... what ???
@@kittenmimi5326 I don't think I've seen those comments but the closest thing I've seen is someone which claimed that parents giving children chores is okay and I agree as long as they're not too harsh like chopping a tree down
@Vasilijan Nikolovski woah there bucko no one mentioned the left or right
U just dont know where to look
Seek and u shall find
As terrible as it feels to see these old photos of children in such horrible working conditions, it's even more terrible to see one in such state in real life. I grew up in a third-world country (Philippines), and I saw and still see a lot of child laborers everywhere. It's heart-breaking! If only the government could help put the children to school and give financial support for them, so they wouldn't have to work so hard to earn their way to school anymore.
Vox, can you make more content like this? It's for this kind of information I subscribed to you guys. Great video idea
@@Kira-vr8dx Do you have sense of humour? 🙄
Hey there hopefully I get likes
Yes. Less politics more this.
@@Kira-vr8dx
When people replies... you know
@Skrooge Lantay I'm talking about current politics.
To think that even after 100 years, this video is still very relevant at this time and age, but only in different countries.
*i want my cheap clothes, as long as it's not my children making them*
ls7orBust2 No.
@ls7orBust2 nothing is wrong with drugs and drinking as long as both parties agree.
Fortunately we're slowing progressing. Every year there are more new laws coming up and being pushed in 3rd world countries to totally ban and prohibited child labor.
The 3rd world countries of now are basically Europe and North America of the early 1800, they see how wrong this is and slowly realize that it must be stopped.
white women have no shame. no morals
ls7orBust2 People like you who find excuses for suffering of children deserve to go through the same pain those children went through.
I've seen many of these photographs before, never knew they were all taken by the same guy. Very interesting.
Hines also took pictures in my state. A bunch of Coal Miners. Shop Owners. and two Glass workers on Lunch
Nowadays it’s different. 😞
Seems like no matter how much people cover the child labour in other countries people don’t care
@ls7orBust2 not at all OK, children cant consent. Parents could coerce their children and say they consented
@ls7orBust2 tf wrong with you? They get paid nearly nothing and work in poor conditions!
@@pretzels713 many of those familys woud probley starve to death if they didnt work.......in many cases of so called sweat shops around the world that few cents a day is good money in that economy where otherwise they would be prostituting and robbing ppl.
And it is coming back in countries like Guatemala. Kids work..coerced by parents. I have 2nd hand knowledge of this... my best friends daughter who refuses to talk/write with her "bio mom" because her younger sister was taken out of school to work. In India children are forced to work in small tunnels.
@@captrodgers4273 so the families are systemically coerced into sending their children into the factories?
These photos are amazing. Beautiful yet horrible
I'm looking at it right now and they are oddly clear.
these photos are from hillary's America
@@texasgun2731 calm down on the kool-aid, you're mistaking cotton spinners, for news spin.
@Exit Strategies nice bait
Erwan Beguin How are they beautiful?
this is why we need government regulation. When humans are left to their own vices you get stuff like this. When ppl and companies get so much money they’ll start to not care about the conditions for their workers and eventually the quality of their products.
Government are humans too
Goondof governments are not humans they are power structures
Ken Ken controlled by humans
Yes so government officials can get bought out and tell us what's good for us. It worked so well in Russia
and then you guys get mad when the government adds things to control companies
I am from India and these things are still happening here.
Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka... all over South Asia... the British and largely European invaders came, looted, plundered, pillaged, terrified and left so silently, leaving us, once sprawling Kingdoms to pick up scraps to make our lives from.
I think india, atleast socially, is in the same place now as europe and america were in 1900s
B Sarangi don’t blame the past for what your people are doing in this day and age.
@@gac1859 "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"
@Sub Bot
It is declining and hopefully by 2022 it will reduce to a very small number
1909: the last time America identified a crisis and actually did something about it.
PJ but it took at least 100 years to abolish child labor. Today's problems are NOTHING in comparison to those horrific problems. Child labor is basically slavery and tell me how long did it take to get abolished? Humans are very, very slow to act when something unjust conflict with their interests. Do you think all suffering came to an end with the child labor laws? What about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911?
@@007Julie what about homeless children? And the ice camps?
Right? Because they really dropped the ball and didn't win WW1 or WW2...........
@@workman88 internal crisis.
Right in the feels 😩
I studied his photography in high school. Among the finest humanist portrait photography in his generation, in my opinion, and all the more for his subjects being children.
The same thing is happening now in Asia unfortunately :(
No it's our fault.. We are letting it happen
@Turururu this is China we are talking about I'm pretty sure it would be real either way...
Not just Asia.
ahmed essa and india
@Turururu censorship,china is notorious for censoring everything
so is this where we get the saying
"a picture tells a thousand words"
So many issues in the US have only been truly rooted out after famous pictures are taken that catch public eye. It's a shame that almost nothing is done by the government until they are almost forced to. I will always have a great deal of admiration for the photographers who seek out these problems to try and raise public awareness.
The photographer in question would not have as resounding success as he did without the government’s Child Labor Committee tasking him with this mission.
A shame we don’t have another one now at a time when child labor law violations run rampant in chains, franchises, and other national or even international businesses.
What a fantastic man - his thorough descriptions and fantastic framing truly captivated the audience and helped transform and eradicate American child labour
Most of this picutures were taken in Great Britian but ok...
Elendiger Uhrensohn even the title refers to the fact that this video centres around the US lol
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But its false, dont believe everything whats in the internet.
Elendiger Uhrensohn the topic is it’s impact on America - if the photos were taken in the UK, it’s still within the context of being viewed in America.
Omg those were some awesome photographs.
I felt like I was really there.
Such a great photographer
I think you missed the point
@@shebrr well, my comment was just taking the photography aspect, like composition, lighting and that depth of field
@@shebrr Send more like you missed the point
@@shebrr He's just appreciating the work of that photographer ,what you said was unnecessary
You can see in their faces how they aged quickly, it's sad knowing actual human beings are behind this evil companies.
They still are. money is the root of all evil it seems
Such quality, and it's all free. Thanks Vox!
Just like child labor!
Well wifi isnt free
As the father of a 3 year old, I couldn't imagine sending him off to work in a damn factory all day. How did we ever think this was a good idea?
Capitalism at its best.
It's called necessity, if you were a starving parent trying to make ends meet, you would actually consider sending your kid to a sweatshop so the both of you can pool your funds and get by. That era was abusive and cruel but it paved the way for progress and without it we wouldn't be having better standards of living today.
@@ValerioRhys Well progress still happened. Keep in mind that it was banned over 100 years ago. Progress didn't shut down 100 years ago.
Kevin Ford families were extremely poor so the sent their kids out to make extra money
In my home country of the netherlands my great grandmother had 12 kids.
All of which were working at the age of 5/6.
She died a healthy life of 102 years old and was tough as nails. Even drank a beer on her 100th birthday.
That's just how times were. In Germany there were family's of people that worked in the mines were living in literally mud houses dugged into the ground close to the mining area.
White privilage!
One of the self-proclaimed libertarians I know thinks we should bring child labor back, you know, for profit..... ugh
As far as the whole thing about photos being a “lever for the social uplift” you should consider that at this point in history camera technology was fairly new and people were not swarmed with images of humanitarian crisis as they are today
'The light-writer: the photograph'
What a beautiful statement. As a photographer, I'm so touched.
Those photos make my chest hurt. Guess I do have a heart, who knew.
Your Surname is Cricket 🏏 ?!
It seems like photographer tried hard to make these children look unhappy.
They were unhappy
@@There_is_a_duck_in_my_home How do you know?
better child labor than bullying in school
*ALL~CHILDREN* 🌎
SHOULD BE HIGHLY VALUED, CARED FOR & LOVED. ❤
The title of this video should be changed to: HOW ONE PHOTOGRAPHER ENDED CHILD LABOUR IN US
FREE KHALISTAN FROM INDIA check out the story of Mother Jones.
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He was part of the progressive movement, as it says in the video. We need political movements for difficult times (climate and poverty). People don't achieve these things on their own. Never.
But he didnt, he did initiate the beginning of ending child labour in more dangerous settings..and got many back to school. However, then came WW1, needed labour when men went to war, same thing in WW11. Maybe most child labour ended in some ways, but was resurrected in war times.
My Uncle worked in nickel mines age 13 in the 40's. My mom age 10 helped her Mom with heavy care for sick patients in their home. Bathing, feeding, dressing sounds etc.
I worked on farms all summer or waitressed or babysat starting age 11, babysitting from same for money to give to our family income.
It just wasn't as noticeable, unless one didn't go to school. But of course nothing like the industrial age child labour for most children.
One part in a much bigger movement by a lot of wonderful forward thinking individuals
@REALVIOLETSAREVIOLET Don't be so ridiculous.
For a minute, I literally have no words to say about the quality of this mini documentary (any better terms? CMIIW). A great effort in research, in the scripting, and in the editing. It's just spectacular. Thank you, Vox, for making the unseen now being noticed by everyone, from literally everywhere. I would love to be a part of the production team if one day Vox Indonesia happens :)
*UPDATE!*
As of April 2023, _child labor is back!_
We need these kinds of humanizing pictures of the children we have in cages right now. If social photography makes that big of a difference then let's act on it! We will find a way to end this horror!
Agree maybe with pictures from inside the concentration camps at the border more people would understand how badly the children are being treated .
Those kids live better than the ones who make I phones
Unfortunately, people are more cynical of the truth in photos nowadays. We're more aware on how photos can be manipulated to distort the truth, a reality that unscrupulous right-wingers would be the first to exploit as an argument.
@@grecomic great comment
@@theresecoco1887 hmm maybe these people were fleeing religious and political persecution, and possible could have died had they not crossed the border?? and many don't actually know that they're crossing the border illegally, they hear from their neighbors that you can 'seek asylum,' and that's what they're trying to do. before they can even be warned the border patrol rips their children from their hands... maybe we should show compassion for these children... maybe cause, it's not their fault????
More people should spread pictures of homeless people sleeping out in the streets during the winter. For some strange reason, the homeless shelters refuse to let them stay indoors during the daytime. It's inhumane to treat people this way.
Unfortunately, this is still occuring in the other side of the world particularly in INDIA because of poverty and continuous government corruption
In India it is declining very rapidly
@@shagunmohta5994 yes india is declining very rapidly in terms of peace and educated leaders
It's less in India but in Pakistan and africa
Wifi naone there's around 46 million child laborers in India.
Why unfortunately?
This photographer was a voice for the children. Bless that man.
"make america great again"
it was never great, not even good
melania d sad you think that but I guess people take comfort for granted
You cant judge the past by today's standards. Imagine other countries during this time. This was the standard unfortunately.
Scribbli Chheery ok boomer
manko if it was never great, u wouldn’t be typing that. Do not take even the littlest things for granted
Green Splatter ok mom
as a photographer, i love your DARKROOM series! hope u keep them coming
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Its so shocking to see that child labour was once widely accepted. We take some things for granted today, rights and laws that once were dehumanizing.
The newest laws in the USA are dehumanizing. Our standard of care for women giving birth is low..more women and babies are dying now in the USA.. go look up mortality stats.
you have progressives to thank for that.
@@cindyqueen7228 that has nothing to do with progressives, democrats or else. it is a systemic issue. (abortion, if youre trying to adress that, is not included in those stats)
Child labor existed, because factory owners didn't care about human rights, if they inhibit profits. Still to this day, that hasn't changed at all
Amanda Kotsubo Child labour still is accepted. Just because it doesn't happen in the western world, doesn't mean it isn't there. Your Adidas shoes were probably made by a child in Malaysia and you just don't know it
I‘m proud of my ancestors that had to survive & thrive because without them, we wouldn’t be here. So many lost generations :(
The camera is more powerful than the gun.
Aka "The pen is mightier than the sword"
the best kind of shooting
Nuclear is the worst creation
MrJason005 yes
Xue Rong Chin Nuclear bomb, yes. However nuclear energy is currently the best type of energy we have. It is safe, clean, efficient, powerful, and available in extreme quantities. If the public wasn’t scared of it, it would easily be the solution to electricity generation. 1 kg of uranium, when used in a powerplant, creates the same amount of energy as 14.5 tons. So arround 14 500 times as much energy as coal.
The images are sooo frickin’ high quality, i need that camera he used!
Well this aged like milk.
Thank you for this! As a photographer I would’ve loved to have had a talk with this photographer and learned how the experience was in these times. Every image he took in this era had a huge impact in history and really shows how powerful photography and visual representation is. Thank you Vox.
I am just obsessed with ur videos💗dont stop
And we are back
Capitalists still scratch their heads wondering how to employ back all this cheap workforce.
Open borders
In third world.
Offsourcing
Which capitalists? B/c Big Business is always lobbying for a higher minimum wage for obvious reasons.
Mass immigration and outsourcing, of course.
This video is very interesting. Hine was a masterful photographer.
I learned something new today. Keep up the good work!
I don't know why I cried when watching this. Especially, that kid who loses his fingers. This is absurd.
I have a 8 year old daughter and i am crying too.
Yes, and exactly why these kinds of stories need to be told. We look back now and say "What were we thinking". 100 years from now we'll look back at today and say the same thing.
I can't imagine my little ones working with those big machines- my heart goes out to child workers in the world today😞🙏☮️
This is superb content with excellent history telling. As a photographer myself, it speaks volumes to the simple fact that a picture can express so much story and drama that transcribes culture and language. Great job Vox!
5:25 That photo of the boy sleeping on the stairs..... damn...
It's heartbreaking 💔
Who’s watching this after Iowa revoked child labor laws?
I am.
The fact that Iowa rolled back child labor protections at all is horrifying. That they did this at
4 o'clock in the morning is telling. If they thought they were doing the right thing for children, why act under the cover of darkness?
They do everything with purpose. They must be privy to some kind of information.
My dad grew up working in the cotton fields with all the other children. This was in the 1950s. Child labor continued in agricultural communities for a while. I don’t think my mom grew up picking crops but I could be wrong, my grandma was a tenant farmer, and the guy she worked for basically gave them barely enough to get by, they were essentially trapped until the factories really came around, after which they saved money and went up north.
My 2 brothers who were close in age to me born during that same decade at around age 8 or so got hired on for pennies to work the farm nearby the city where we lived too. I felt upset and angry that I didn't get hired to work alongside of them. Was that only because it was after I led the 3 of us prior to that in an attempt to run away from home only because I didn't believe in the most common at the time method being used by a whole lot of fathers and school principles too both on and off of reserves to spank students too at the time?
Amazed how he used photography as a tool to enlight the government and all the people, also amazed by his technique how he photographed. Ill be binge wstching your Darkroom series, thank you for sharing this
The first thing that crossed my mind was that this man was a hero. His work impacted the lives of millions.
You ask to sugest a topic, you can consider the Mexican Revolution.
Thanks you for making this mini documentaries, Darkroom is the reason I follow Vox and have the paid subscription. I love photography and the stories of how it changed the world. Congratulations for the amazing work you did in S1, every episode made me drop a tear and smile at the same time. I’ll be patiently waiting for S2. Never stop producing Darkroom, the quality, narrative and how you pack it all together is a simple and digestible video is AMAZING.
Agreed. And I'm not even a photographer. I know absolutely nothing about photography. But these videos are truly moving.
i just found this channel and fell in love with the quality of the video...great job there
2:01 i remember my grandparents taking me to see Lackawanna coal mine when I was 9 years old and the pictures of children working scared me so much. It was such a creepy place to be
Thank you so much for a great series! I'm a photographer and it means so much to me that you dove into a history that I love; something many people don't realize influenced reform in many areas in the 20th century. Please keep making more :)
8 year old: *smokes a cigarette*
Me: that’s just wrong..
How is it like bieng an alien
Indistrial accidents are messy; not a nice way for an adult to go, worse to think it happened to children.
and now iowa gives corporations protections if children get hurt while working in places that they shouldnt!
I’m really going to miss Darkroom. It’s my number one favorite Vox series. Looking forward to S2.
Thank you all wonderful human beings who care.
I really love this video, like a lot. Darkroom in general, but specifically, the child labor photographs and how you included information about the photographer and his mezmorizing and humanizing techniques.
75 cents a day in 1909 would equate to $21.11 a day in 2019
I think they changed the text, so it was equivalent to todays buy power.
If they got that much then bread should cost like 5-25 cents
Yeah, but everything was way more expensive so isn't that great
It’s now $21.18 in 2020
@@avery3834 Not sure thats right
My mother as a child and teen picked cotton to make money. It was not mandatory, but being poor her and her siblings where more than happy to do it. I believe harvest time of cotton is spring/ summer. It was very hard work in very hot weather. This was in the 50's.
My grandma did the same thing they all started when they were about 3. She was 3 in 1956. Never went to school either.
@Nemanja ĆIrić not at all especially with polio around
@Nemanja ĆIrić The past is often romanticized but the best time in history is the present.
@Nemanja ĆIrić Not point in history is a paradise for everyone
Labor laws for farming a not as strict since historically and for most farm today they need their children to help run the farm. It's too big for one man and hiring farm hands year round is too expensive especially if it's not a giant commerical farm
My town was a big coal town in PA, I feel so privileged after learning how different these children had it than I did.
The News boy strike of 1899, portrayed perfectly in the musical newsies, this should be talked about just same
THIS SERIES IS SO AMAZING
Excellent piece, thoughtfully put together. Thank you.
i hope darkroom comes back soon
Is it coming back?
Silver 18 i think so, Coleman just said he was taking a break to do more history club so my understanding was that it would come back later
this is a darkroom episode.
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Those were strong photographs, man, they hit me hard.
I commented in another video portraying the hardship of child labor (same pics) and how hard it must had for them., It is a relief to know that those pictures had changed their life since.. Bless the photographer
Children: we did it child labor is no more, We are finally safe
WW1: Hehehehe
I feel like this is the time period that Trump is referring to when he says Make America Great again.
He is referring more to the 50s
Tyler Warren Ellis I think he’s talking about the 50s and 60s
@@briantheduckgod2714 which were terrible times for black Americans, which highlights the problem with nostalgia politics. The past is seldom as great as we'd like to tell ourselves
Tyler Warren Ellis
A part of the time that continues on though different kids and equally disturbing circumstances.
Pray for America's unborn and children; pray for the world's unborn and little children.
@@briantheduckgod2714 the only reason the 50's were "great" was because it was after WWII and we were the only country that didn't have to rebuild. Nothing exists in a bubble, gotta have context man.
Great. Not rushed and gives you enough time to to absorb the information and appreciate the photography!
Love this series, all of the stories are just giving me goose bumps
US 100 years back is what modern day India is...
Only difference is substitute child labour with adult , unskilled ones.
Child labor also happens there.
What are they supposed to do in that case, though. If people need work and education isn't available, they'll take anything they can. It's a complicated issue.
Exactly. So I do believe that India and many other 3rd World countries will slowly progress and prohinite once for all this practice. There are already many countries were new laws for ban child labor are starting to be studied by their respective governments and being trying to be approved.
3rd world countries are now what Europe and North America were 200-100 years ago. Eventually all the world progress as their economy progress as well.
And as Anthony says, isn't that easy neither. Have in mind that in many of these countries Public Schools and Healtcare aren't even a thing, people lives everyday like if it was the last one for them. At soon that Public Education, Public healthcare and the National Economy started to improve in the old 1st world people started to be able to focus in improve their rights in every sense. We can't change an unfair world in one day, but slowly, day by day, giving our best for the others we eventually make it better.
@cphginger that issue is mostly solved
@@flytrapYTP The solution is quite simple: Get rid of the caste system and start valueing each human as equal.
Heartbreaking! The stealing of a child's innocents is the worst crime of humanity.
Back in the days even kids could get jobs, now people with university degrees cant even get work
There's plenty of work for less than 75 cents a day
@@Sasha32659 For real? Employment here i come!
And you don't have to speak English to get job. Horrendous!
@@QueenLadyQ Speaking English is not a requirement to work in America. Is it polite to know how? Yeah. But the person's language does not change the quality of work unless their job mostly involves speaking to people
@@youtubealtaccount7163 ok to your point, we see people working everywhere who can't speak English. That is obviously. But what type of job is it? What is the real requirements notice I stated *REAL* A Friend of mine was turned down from a government jobs because the interviewee said she didn't pronounce certain words correctly. When it comes to customer service it's required. Imagine living in North America, your bank account was hacked , you call you bank and the person doesn't speak English. When we first opened up this Hotel 15 years ago, my little sister and her little white friends all got customer service positions. while some black people in our area did not qualify. So they were offered a less paying job back of the house positions or something equivalent to cleaning. because they didn't speak the "Queen's English" I helped conduct basic interviews. When it comes to customer service positions especially face to face contact with customers it's required. Not just where I work but everywhere. Black have been turned away for years because of the no proper English no job. So Now these folks come in and they waive the rule. It's obvious that you don't have to speak English for certain jobs. We are working around tons of illegal immigrants who don't speak English but working when our citizens should be. Prime example about 9 years ago my Ex boyfriend's Brother who is Mexican applied for the same job (banquet server) at another location ( major hotel chain) I went with him because my friend was the director there , he was strong and physically abled and a legal immigrant. My friend told me because his English wasn't up to par, he was not qualified for the position. He was working our company anyway doing clean up work. But some how this same company years later and other Hotels are providing opportunities for temporary workers, who are illegal immigrants, who don't speak English the same position today. It's not fair to the customers. people are allergic to certain things and they can't answers a simple but serious question. We have had incidents because of this. One time they told a Jewish couple there's only one type meal lobster tails and they can't eat shellfish. During our pre meetings we go over our alternative menu for religion, vegetarians, and allergies. But how do you serve people when cant convey this message. When Customers ask for an alternative meal and they only respond you can give is no. a few weeks ago a lady was just sitting there with her hands folded nicely and her whole table was eating I just so happened to be walking by and ask her what she needed. she said I will eat later on I am vegan I will something later on to eat it was already late. So Her company sent her to the conference paid for her meal(s) and she was told no by one of our temp staff. I explained that we indeed offer an vegan option and she didn't have to wander around a strange town looking for food at night. The other day 3 or 4 of them decided to they were tired hadn't worked 8 hours yet. But the band hired by the conference was nice enough to listen to so let's all go sit down with the paying customers and enjoy the band.
The manager caught them. They hide in the bathrooms and go outside we are constantly trying to get them to task but they refuse... only listen to the manager. When we are assigned team leaders who divvy out responsibilities. I I am glad I am just there a few days out of the week. I don't have the patience to work in this environment every day. The clean up crew shuts things down when they are ready not when we ask them to so they can go home early. Dishes are left for their morning crew. Never happened when the young American citizens were there. Our manager is from Souvlaki said she is feed up with them. I told to go to HR or the department heads who call these temporary workers in and Express her concerns. Because there's American citizens from temp agency who we have worked with not as often (more money) but they do a much better job. Our equipment is located on several floors. Needless to say it takes us longer to set up and break down when they arrive. They aren't worth the money. Or should I say you get what you pay for. The only people happy is the owners and the shareholders who are making big profits off of cheap labor. To me it's slavery 2.0
4:25 just breaks my heart... 😞 I have a little sister about that age and the fact the literal *children* were forced to work is just messed up. We’re so privelaged
Here in MA, the town I live in a hundred years ago was a mill town, and had a ton of child workers who could barely speak English, who came from Poland and from French speaking parts of Canada, and Lewis Hine actually came here and took pictures.
Considering the information you gave me, we could very well of live in the same town! Also live in MA, and a former mill town with a polish population
Damn, how do they make videos like this. The editing is just marvelous. Kudos to the guys who do this👌
I'am more curious how they got such information and footage, using the same distinctive style, like old newspaper article, photograph and video.
But yeah, the editing is what really makes the content has it own uniqueness, I think they have their preset in after effect for that.
Gosh, I remember seeing the photo of Sadie at the start whilst studying history in high school...
Photographs are incredibly powerful and important! Especially in regard to injustice. Now with widespread availability and usage of cell phone cameras, LOTS of injustices are known and documented! Very good!
1:14 this picture legit scared me idk why
In countries like China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines child labour is still being practiced on a very large scale. UN should really do something about this.
Child labour is also popular in the middle east.
The UN is a forum. It's not a power. It can't make its members do anything, because it IS its members.
Every single picture tells a story.
This is why we need more unions in this country.
I’ve been seeing conservatives trying to bring this back
Shout out to Lewis Hine. He is a true hero.
This is a very well put together video👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Can we acknowledge how good of a photographer Hines was, his photos look so good
A photographer is a silent hero in so many situation.
Ive been working for as long as I can remember. I started out small with my dad, helping him around the construction and often times the docks, and By the time I turned 13 I signed my first legal contract as a light work laborer in a logistics company (we helped people move and delivered packages). By the time i was 15, i had already met dozens of different customers and travelled through most of western and central Europe, in various countries such as Germany, France, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Holland and so on, and I was paid around 9 euros an hour for the first two years. I slowly started to gain salary, and By the time I did my last moving gig, I was 19 years old and had enough money to help my family pay the bills and buy myself a new computer.
Not gonna lie, the work was hard most days, but it all paid off in the company I spent my working days in. So if theres anything I truly miss, its the good hearted company of honest working men and the sweat of the same honest work.
So you support child labor?
@@cohlinegarnet8313 "sO YOu sUPpoRT CHilD lABoR?"
Point me where I said it was accetable. Obviously no, but when you dont have as many options in life, can you blame the ones that dedicate themselves to that kind of lifestyle?
Also in my defense, teaching kids about the importance of work and work ethics helps them grow a proper spine, as you steadily begin to see how individual needs self-sufficiency in order to Make it in life.
@@cohlinegarnet8313he said he worked with his dad ..which would be more like being taught a couple of different trades that worked out for him in the end..that's not like whatever was going on in this video..I suppose he didn't see what he did as child labor and more of he was being taught how to be a man
It ended in US just for it to start in Asia since everything is manufactured in Asia.....
Who would of thought almost 120 years later your work would be receiving credibility on a platform you never thought would exist. If this man was doing this type of photography in the modern world he would blow up.
I know this video is about a very serious issue, but I can't help but admire the artistic way the children were photographed. ❤️
Your videos are so well researched and edited! Keep it up
This video was so moving, thank you for sharing! I think this will really impact my students as we study this week
2:54 that editing, the context, and the sudden loud sound of the machine scared me D:>