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... Young Ladies in Drapers ' Shops - Good and Bad Houses - Political Economy in a Fix - Light Employments and Hard Work - Good Living v . Semi - Starvation - Caution to the Thoughtless- Governesses - Private Teaching - Unfit Teachers ...
... Young Ladies in Drapers ' Shops - Good and Bad Houses - Political Economy in a Fix - Light Employments and Hard Work - Good Living v . Semi - Starvation - Caution to the Thoughtless- Governesses - Private Teaching - Unfit Teachers ...
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... Young Persons - Certificate of Fitness - Hours in Textile Factories - Hours in Non - Textile Factories - Women in Workshops - Simultaneous Meal - Times - Meals during Work Prohibited - Excep- tional Saturdays - Compulsory Holidays ...
... Young Persons - Certificate of Fitness - Hours in Textile Factories - Hours in Non - Textile Factories - Women in Workshops - Simultaneous Meal - Times - Meals during Work Prohibited - Excep- tional Saturdays - Compulsory Holidays ...
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... young children , it seems inevitable that his heroic efforts to educate his son must have broken down under the pressure , and that Robert , who died so soon after his father , in October , 1850 , would never have had the national ...
... young children , it seems inevitable that his heroic efforts to educate his son must have broken down under the pressure , and that Robert , who died so soon after his father , in October , 1850 , would never have had the national ...
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... young men do . KEEPING IN THE RUT . Many persons in average circumstances , reading or hearing of men who have risen from the greatest poverty , and not being in such poverty them- selves , seem unable to understand how the idea of ...
... young men do . KEEPING IN THE RUT . Many persons in average circumstances , reading or hearing of men who have risen from the greatest poverty , and not being in such poverty them- selves , seem unable to understand how the idea of ...
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... determined that he would seek to make her his wife . When first he saw her she was quite a young girl , so that in taking that fancy he effectually deferred 4 marriage for some years , a condition of thrift that 18 THE PLEASURES AND.
... determined that he would seek to make her his wife . When first he saw her she was quite a young girl , so that in taking that fancy he effectually deferred 4 marriage for some years , a condition of thrift that 18 THE PLEASURES AND.
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ADMISSION AND STATUS advantage amongst amount apprentice average become Beeton's benefits Bond Street building society capital cent child circumstances clean cloth gilt co-operative considerable Crown 8vo death Debt deposit account depositor deposits district domestic servant domestic service duties E.C. New York employer employment engaged entitled factory Fcap friendly societies girls High Court housemaid husband indenture interest investing member Letters of Administration liable living lodge London managers Manchester manufacturing marriage married master months occupation Office Savings Bank paid payable payment Penny Banks Post Office Savings postage stamps Postmaster pounds practical premium profits proportion REFERENCE TO THRIFT Rochdale Pioneers rules shilling Sick success things tion trade union trustee savings bank usually wages Ward and Lock's week whole wife William Smart women workshop young person
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Page 50 - Act, and in which neither steam, water, nor other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there...
Page 168 - So much of § 23 of the principal act as defines the term 'trade union,' except the proviso qualifying such definition, is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows:— "The term 'trade union" means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, for regulating the relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business...
Page 169 - Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any of the following agreements namely, 1.
Page 169 - Any agreement between members of a trade union as such concerning the conditions on which any members for the time being of such trade union shall or shall not sell their goods, transact business, employ or be employed.
Page 169 - ... (a) to provide benefits to members ; or (b) to furnish contributions to any employer or workman not a member of such trade union, in consideration of such employer or workman acting in conformity with the rules or resolutions of such trade union ; or...
Page 249 - In proposing to themselves, as the chief aim of their enterprise, a combination of accuracy, compactness, comprehensiveness and cheapness, the publishers have achieved a success which cannot fail to be appreciated by the public.
Page 253 - Coloured Figures, showing the modern mode of sending Dishes to Table. 2. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Gardening. A Popular Encyclopaedia of the Theory and Practice of Horticulture. With many Engravings and Coloured Plates, made after original Water-Colour Drawings. 3. The Manners of Polite Society; or, Etiquette for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Families. Illustrated. BEETON'S "ALL ABOUT IT
Page 154 - No society can be registered under a name identical with that under which any other existing society is registered, or so nearly resembling such name as to be likely, or in any name likely, in the opinion of the registrar, to deceive the members or the public as to its identity ; and no society can change its name without the sanction of the chief or an assistant registrar.
Page 82 - Term of seven years [or until the full age of twenty-one] from thence next following, to be fully complete and ended, during which term the said apprentice his Master faithfully shall serve, his secrets keep, his lawful commands everywhere gladly do.