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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]
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.
The Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 21) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The statute prevented boys under the age of thirteen from working, or being (for the purposes of employment) in an underground mine .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
These scholars suggest, from their studies of economic and social data, that early 20th-century child labour in Europe and the United States ended in large part as a result of the economic development of the formal regulated economy, technology development and general prosperity. Child labour laws and ILO conventions came later.