The Factory System and the Factory ActsMethuen, 1894 - 184 pages |
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... materials into this new mass ; but a popular statement of how it all has come about , and to what extent actually proceeded , should not be out of place either in view of the manifold interests concerned . This is the purpose of the ...
... materials into this new mass ; but a popular statement of how it all has come about , and to what extent actually proceeded , should not be out of place either in view of the manifold interests concerned . This is the purpose of the ...
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... material ; " the expression " mill " not being used herein at all , except in connection with " mill gearing , " between which and machinery some nice distinctions are drawn , which do not concern us now . At this time , then , a ...
... material ; " the expression " mill " not being used herein at all , except in connection with " mill gearing , " between which and machinery some nice distinctions are drawn , which do not concern us now . At this time , then , a ...
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... material with little blue and white checks , of which the fellah women make their outer garments " ( Ancient Egypt and Assyria ; p . 74 ) . The evidence from ancient Babylonia is equally con- vincing , but space will not admit of its ...
... material with little blue and white checks , of which the fellah women make their outer garments " ( Ancient Egypt and Assyria ; p . 74 ) . The evidence from ancient Babylonia is equally con- vincing , but space will not admit of its ...
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... material prosperity thus indicated continued to grow under the Stuarts , and throughout the civil wars , in spite of the political complications of the time ; and it received a powerful stimulus from successive immigrations of ...
... material prosperity thus indicated continued to grow under the Stuarts , and throughout the civil wars , in spite of the political complications of the time ; and it received a powerful stimulus from successive immigrations of ...
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... materials I have mentioned , sufficient for the consumption of one weaver , this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person from the age of seven to eighty years ( who retained their sight and could ...
... materials I have mentioned , sufficient for the consumption of one weaver , this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person from the age of seven to eighty years ( who retained their sight and could ...
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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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