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  2. Child labour in the British Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    [2] [9] [3] It also appointed four factory inspectors to enforce the law. [9] A report by the factory inspectors in 1835 stated that child labour in child factory in textile factories had decreased by 50%. [10] The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 stipulated that no child under 10 years old could be employed in any underground work. [2]

  3. Child labour - Wikipedia

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    A Palestinian child labourer at the Kalya Junction, Lido beach, Delek petrol station, road 90 near the Dead Sea A child labourer in Dhaka, Bangladesh Child coal miners in Prussia, late 19th century A succession of laws on child labour, the Factory Acts, were passed in the UK in the 19th century.

  4. Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 - Wikipedia

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    The Act passed in 1819 was only a pale shadow of Owen's draft of 1815. The bill presented in 1815, applied to all children in textile mills and factories; with children under ten were not to be employed; children between ten and eighteen could work no more than ten hours a day, with two hours for mealtimes and half an hour for schooling this made a 12.5 hour day; Magistrates were to be ...

  5. Factory Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 (42 Geo. 3.c. 73) was introduced by Sir Robert Peel; it addressed concerns felt by the medical men of Manchester about the health and welfare of children employed in cotton mills, and first expressed by them in 1784 in a report on an outbreak of 'putrid fever' at a mill at Radcliffe owned by Peel.

  6. Factories Act 1847 - Wikipedia

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    The Humanitarians and the Ten Hour Movement in England; Cooke-Taylor, R.W. The Factory System and the Factory Act (1894) online; Nardinelli, Clark. "Child labour and the factory acts." Journal of Economic History 40.4 (1980): 739–755; an optimistic view; Tuttle, Carolyn. "Child labour during the British industrial revolution." EH-Net ...

  7. Chimney Sweepers Act 1834 - Wikipedia

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    c. 35) was a British act of Parliament passed to try to stop child labour. Many boys as young as six were being used as chimney sweeps. This act stated that an apprentice must express himself in front of a magistrate that he was willing and desirous. Masters must not take on boys under the age of fourteen.

  8. Mines and Collieries Act 1842 - Wikipedia

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    A hurrier and two thrusters heaving a corf full of coal as depicted in the 1853 book The White Slaves of England by J Cobden. The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 99), commonly known as the Mines Act 1842, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act forbade women and girls of any age to work underground and ...

  9. Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 - Wikipedia

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    A cheap and importable source of labour was 'parish apprentices' (pauper children, whose parish was supposed to see them trained to a trade or occupation); mill owners would reach agreement with distant parishes to employ, house and feed their apprentices. In 1800 there were 20,000 apprentices working in cotton mills. [1]