Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Glassworks. Midnight. Location: Indiana." From a series of photographs of child labor at glass and bottle
factories in the United States by Lewis W. Hine, for the National Child Labor Committee, New York.

How old do you think the children are in this photograph? What kind of work do you think they are doing? How does this type of work compare to the first jobs most teenagers have today? What conclusions can you infer about what life was like for these children.


As you work through this lesson, keep these questions in mind and see if any of your answers change in light of what you discover.