Children as young as four seen working in deadly conditions for just $1 A WEEK in early 1900s haunting pics
HEARTBREAKING images show children as young as FOUR toiling away in squalid and dangerous conditions for just a dollar a week.
The kids can been seen shucking oysters with their tiny hands and lugging bucket loads of grease whilst dodging speeding wagons.
Perhaps best known for his photographs of the construction workers who helped build the Empire State Building in 1930, Hine was also a fierce social reform advocate.
In 1908, the then-sociology professor was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document how young children were working in cotton mills and coal mines.
Over the course of a decade he took thousands of photographs that helped convince US lawmakers to introduce new industrial regulations to protect children.
The problem of child labor is still yet to be stamped out. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 70 million children around the world work in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor and other industries, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.