lewis hines was a lot of work he did with photography. because around the 20th century, when film became pliable and exploited heecame , used cameras to build into the factories and show the suffering of children. that was transformative in the way that people understood child labor. how much attention the cause got. what happened to his photographs, can you talk about the role of the media? julia: they would use those photographs to kind of humanize what was happening in these mines. the photographs were used to emphasize how small the children were for their age. sometimes they would be very graphic with injuries to their hands, when they were caught in a machine and maimed, or the squalor they lived in, because of their poverty. susan: what does your research tell you about the families of these children and whether or not they actually supported the reforms. julia: there was definitely a cultural tension around this, particularly with immigrant families who felt it was kind of the pressure for the middle-class social reformers who did