Photos expose the harsh reality of child labor in the United States

Cherry harvest in Sunnyside, Wash., in 1982. (Photo by Ken Light) This op-ed was first published here in the Washington Post on May 8, 2023.

Recent headlines about the widespread exploitation of children in America’s workplaces shocked me, as it did many in our country. It was all the worse that the exploitation targeted undocumented migrant children who had recently entered the United States, seemingly abetted by a Health and Human Services Department determined to clear unaccompanied children from detention.

Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. As a documentary photographer of nearly five decades’ experience, I witnessed similarly cruel […]

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