The Factory System and the Factory ActsMethuen, 1894 - 184 pages |
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... proposal is for the amelioration of what was then assumed to be a novel evil , by means of legislative action specially adapted to that end . It did not occur to these early reformers to enquire too curiously into the origin and area of ...
... proposal is for the amelioration of what was then assumed to be a novel evil , by means of legislative action specially adapted to that end . It did not occur to these early reformers to enquire too curiously into the origin and area of ...
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... proposed , and did whatever they could to frustrate my object . " If such was the condition of things in a model factory and under the best of masters one may imagine what it must have been under others less scrupulous . - THE FACTORY ...
... proposed , and did whatever they could to frustrate my object . " If such was the condition of things in a model factory and under the best of masters one may imagine what it must have been under others less scrupulous . - THE FACTORY ...
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... proposed to me to take up the question that Sadler had necessarily dropped . I can perfectly recollect my astonishment , and doubt , and terror , at the proposition . I forget the arguments for and against my intermeddling in the affair ...
... proposed to me to take up the question that Sadler had necessarily dropped . I can perfectly recollect my astonishment , and doubt , and terror , at the proposition . I forget the arguments for and against my intermeddling in the affair ...
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... proposed ) ; were as bad as , or worse than , in cotton factories ( pp . 16 , 17 ) , and the same argu- 1An Enquiry into the Principle and Tendency of the Bill now pending in Parliament for imposing certain Restrictions on Cotton ...
... proposed ) ; were as bad as , or worse than , in cotton factories ( pp . 16 , 17 ) , and the same argu- 1An Enquiry into the Principle and Tendency of the Bill now pending in Parliament for imposing certain Restrictions on Cotton ...
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... proposal was to find a " reasonable wage ; -a desirable enterprise if it were only feasible , and one not without earnest and able advocates at the present day . But it was never , and could 1 The State in Relation to Labour ; p . 35 ...
... proposal was to find a " reasonable wage ; -a desirable enterprise if it were only feasible , and one not without earnest and able advocates at the present day . But it was never , and could 1 The State in Relation to Labour ; p . 35 ...
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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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