The Factory System and the Factory ActsMethuen, 1894 - 184 pages |
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... employer , we have the germ of the modern Factory System . A great advance was made in the reign of Edward III . Edward had married a Flemish princess , Philippa of Hain- ault , and it is to that union - indeed to the queen's own ...
... employer , we have the germ of the modern Factory System . A great advance was made in the reign of Edward III . Edward had married a Flemish princess , Philippa of Hain- ault , and it is to that union - indeed to the queen's own ...
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... employers ; involving quite different considerations , and , at length , formal regulations ; the regulations namely which came to be , and are continuing to be , embodied in our ever - expanding Factory Acts . 1 Water - driven corn ...
... employers ; involving quite different considerations , and , at length , formal regulations ; the regulations namely which came to be , and are continuing to be , embodied in our ever - expanding Factory Acts . 1 Water - driven corn ...
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... employer . " 1 Neither was this movement confined , of course , to such places ; it necessarily penetrated wherever labour could be employed for any productive purpose on the same footing . A description was lately quoted ( p . 17 ) of ...
... employer . " 1 Neither was this movement confined , of course , to such places ; it necessarily penetrated wherever labour could be employed for any productive purpose on the same footing . A description was lately quoted ( p . 17 ) of ...
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... employers filled with the most pitiless of all passions , the pursuit of gain , that passion manifesting itself in unusually atrocious forms under the novel stimulus of the Factory System . THE FIRST REFORMERS . - The new system of ...
... employers filled with the most pitiless of all passions , the pursuit of gain , that passion manifesting itself in unusually atrocious forms under the novel stimulus of the Factory System . THE FIRST REFORMERS . - The new system of ...
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... employer . " Under the operation of the factory apprentice system , " writes " Alfred , " " parish apprentices were sent without remorse or enquiry , to be used up as the cheapest raw material in the market ; " and he thus describes the ...
... employer . " Under the operation of the factory apprentice system , " writes " Alfred , " " parish apprentices were sent without remorse or enquiry , to be used up as the cheapest raw material in the market ; " and he thus describes the ...
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agitation appointed apprentices Author Bakehouses BARING GOULD Bill brought Buckram certificate child children and young cognate Committee cotton factories Crown 8vo domestic E. F. BENSON economic Edition employed employer enacted English enquiry establishments factories and workshops Factory Acts Factory Controversy factory inspectors factory law factory legislation factory or workshop factory reform GIBBINS GORDON BROWNE half Holidays hours of labour House Illustrated industry instance interest J. A. HOBSON Limewashing limited Lord Ashley machinery manufacture MARIE CORELLI master meals ment mills Modern Factory System motive power Non-Textile Factories notice novel occupations operation organzine Parliament particular passed present production proposed protection provisions purpose regulations result Robert Owen Saturday Sir Robert Peel spinning statute story supervision Ten Hours Bill textile factories thirteen tion trade volume W. G. COLLINGWOOD women woollen workers Workshop Act young persons
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