Lewis Hine et le National Child Labor Committee: vérité documentaire et rhétorique visuelle et textuelle by Anne Lesme

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Toronto's first street kids and the origins of child welfare systems in Canada part 2: later years by Ted Dunlop

“…Mounting public concern about these wayward young people was fueled by alarmist (though sometimes sympathetic) newspaper accounts of an expanding population of children and youth who were plying their trade from a very young age on the streets selling newspapers, shoelaces, pencils and later working as what were called bootblacks. In establishment circles, these children and youth came to be viewed as a threat to public order whose rough apprenticeship on the streets, so it was speculated, left them vulnerable to a life of crime and prostitution later in life. …”