The Factory System and the Factory ActsMethuen, 1894 - 184 pages |
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... regard to any other subject of contract . On the contrary , this had been always held to be one of the first and most obvious relations requiring careful public supervision . In the great slave - holding countries of history , for ...
... regard to any other subject of contract . On the contrary , this had been always held to be one of the first and most obvious relations requiring careful public supervision . In the great slave - holding countries of history , for ...
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... second committee need not detain us long . It resembled in its main features that of 1816 , but enough evidence was tendered to it on the side of reformers • to make further action in regard to cotton mills 60 THE FACTORY SYSTEM.
... second committee need not detain us long . It resembled in its main features that of 1816 , but enough evidence was tendered to it on the side of reformers • to make further action in regard to cotton mills 60 THE FACTORY SYSTEM.
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Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor. • to make further action in regard to cotton mills a necessity , and in 1819 a new law was passed to that end . It enacted that after the 1st of January 1820 no child should be employed in cotton - spinning ...
Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor. • to make further action in regard to cotton mills a necessity , and in 1819 a new law was passed to that end . It enacted that after the 1st of January 1820 no child should be employed in cotton - spinning ...
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... regard of its provisions even in that single manufacture , the evidence that had been taken both for and against inter- ference ; and not less the evidence against than for ; all these had largely contributed to instruct the public mind ...
... regard of its provisions even in that single manufacture , the evidence that had been taken both for and against inter- ference ; and not less the evidence against than for ; all these had largely contributed to instruct the public mind ...
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... regard to the opposition of em- ployers , it should not be all set down to mere selfishness , as has been sometimes too hastily done . Many of them were thoroughly convinced ( and it must be remembered that the best economists of the ...
... regard to the opposition of em- ployers , it should not be all set down to mere selfishness , as has been sometimes too hastily done . Many of them were thoroughly convinced ( and it must be remembered that the best economists of 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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