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The Factory Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 103) was an attempt to establish a regular working day in textile manufacture. The act had the following provisions: [2] Children (ages 9–12) are limited to 48 hours per week. [27] Children under 9 were not allowed to be employed in factories, [28] except in silk mills.
The 1833 Factory Act stipulated that no child under the age of 9 could be legally employed, children 9 to 13 years old could not work more than 8 hours, and children 14 to 18 could not work more than 12 hours a day, children could not work at night, children needed to attend a minimum of 2 hours of education a day, and employers needed age ...
The Sadler Report, also known as the Report of the Select Committee on Factory Children's Labour (Parliamentary Papers 1831–32, volume XV) or "the report of Mr Sadler's Committee," [a] was a report written in 1832 by Michael Sadler, the chairman of a UK Parliamentary committee considering a bill that limited the hours of work of children in ...
Uk passed the 1833 Factory Act [3]] In 1839 Prussia was the first country to pass laws restricting child labor in factories and setting the number of hours a child could work. [ 1 ] Though the reasons behind why these laws were passed were to expand working conditions for adults, it did lead to laws being passed across Europe.
An Act for the Relief of the Owners of Tithes in Ireland, and for the Amendment of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, [e] intituled "An Act to amend Three Acts passed respectively in the Fourth, Fifth, and in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, providing for the establishing of ...
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Slight amendments were attempted in the acts of 1825 and 1831, but the first really important Factory Act was in 1833 applying to textile factories generally, limiting employment of young persons under eighteen years of age, as well as children, prohibiting night work between 8.30 p.m. and 5.30 a.m., and first providing for "inspectors" to ...
Ellen Hooton was a ten-year-old girl from Wigan who gave testimony to the Central Board of His Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the Employment of Children in Factories, 1833. [1] She had been working for several years at a spinning frame, in a cotton mill along with other children. She worked from 5.30 am till 8 pm, six days a week ...