The Factory System and the Factory ActsMethuen, 1894 - 184 pages |
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... Adult Labour - The Factory Act , 1878- Sweating " -The Factory Act , 1891 - Practical Results of Legislation 66 77 100 CHAPTER VI . CONCLUDING CHAPTER Cognate Industries - Chimney Sweeps - Mines and Quarries-- Alkali Works - Explosives ...
... Adult Labour - The Factory Act , 1878- Sweating " -The Factory Act , 1891 - Practical Results of Legislation 66 77 100 CHAPTER VI . CONCLUDING CHAPTER Cognate Industries - Chimney Sweeps - Mines and Quarries-- Alkali Works - Explosives ...
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... adult and young , in tending with assiduous skill a series of productive machines , continually impelled by a central power . " But this definition fails in two directions . On the one hand it fails by including machinery and a central ...
... adult and young , in tending with assiduous skill a series of productive machines , continually impelled by a central power . " But this definition fails in two directions . On the one hand it fails by including machinery and a central ...
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... adults , most of them were orphans . There were some of the orphan children from Edinburgh who had been in the mill , I believe , from four to five years . The children were incapable of performing their day's labour well towards the ...
... adults , most of them were orphans . There were some of the orphan children from Edinburgh who had been in the mill , I believe , from four to five years . The children were incapable of performing their day's labour well towards the ...
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... adult labour was concerned , as an evil to be avoided at all hazards . In the first Report of the Central Board of ... adults . The only remedy for this evil , short of the limitation of the labour of adults , which would , in our ...
... adult labour was concerned , as an evil to be avoided at all hazards . In the first Report of the Central Board of ... adults . The only remedy for this evil , short of the limitation of the labour of adults , which would , in our ...
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... adult women ! The time for filing an Infor- mation for a breach of the Act was extended to two , and in some instances three , months after the commission of the offence , and minute precautions were directed against the notorious ...
... adult women ! The time for filing an Infor- mation for a breach of the Act was extended to two , and in some instances three , months after the commission of the offence , and minute precautions were directed against the notorious ...
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