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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. 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.

  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. 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 ...

  6. History of labour law in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The history of labour law in the United Kingdom concerns the development of UK labour law, from its roots in Roman and medieval times in the British Isles up to the present. Before the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of mechanised manufacture, regulation of workplace relations was based on status, rather than contract or mediation ...

  7. Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 - Wikipedia

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    The Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that superseded the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act 1840 passed to try to stop child labour. The bills, proposed by Lord Shaftesbury , were triggered by the death of twelve-year-old George Brewster, whose master had caused him to climb and clean the ...

  8. 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.

  9. Chimney Sweepers Act 1788 - Wikipedia

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    The Chimney Sweepers Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3.c. 48) was a British Act of Parliament passed to try to stop child labour.Many boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps.