Owen Lovejoy was a vehement opposer of child labour. He served as the general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee from 1907 to 1926, and then as the general secretary of the Children's Aid Society until 1939. At the National Child Labor Committee, he appointed Lewis Hine as staff photographer and art director of their magazine 'Charities and Commons' (later 'The Survey') between 1908 and 1917.

'The Children's Aid Society knows of no greater service that can be given to this group of under-privileged children than to lay their case before the busy people of this busy city who yet find time to think of their neighbors.'

First edition; (228 x 150 mm, 9 x 6 in); 8 pages of black & white photographic plates, introduction by William Church Osborn; wire-stitched buff wrappers with titles stamped in grey on upper side, lightly toned at spine, lightly marked, thumb print to one page, a very good copy; 52pp