The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom beginning in 1802 to regulate and improve the conditions of industrial employment.

For the first time, factory inspectors were appointed. 1842: Mines Act. This stopped children under 9 and women from working underground. 1844: Factory Act (Mills). This act applied only to the textile industry and limited the work of children aged 8 to 13 to 6.5 hours a day, which was considered to be "half-time".

The 1842 Mines and Collieries Act: this Act banned all women children under the age of ten from working in mines. It also said that no-one aged under 15 was allowed to work on a winding engine in a mine. The 1844 Graham’s Factory Act: this reduced the minimum age for anyone working in factories to eight. Meanwhile, those aged between eight to ...

2016年2月16日 · Employers were also required to have an age certificate for young workers and four factory inspectors had to be appointed to oversee the regulations and law. 1842: The Mines Act. Women and young people under the age of 10 prohibited from working underground. 1843/44: Graham’s Factory Education Bill. Act limited to textile mills.

2018年8月10日 · Sir Robert Peel, father of the future Prime Minister, and a cotton manufacturer, in 1802 introduced a Health and Morals of Apprentices Bill which despite opposition from mill-owners passed into law. It was important as being the first Factory Act and so initiated the whole modern state system of regulation. The legislation was an attempt…

Although a disappointment to those hoping and working for a 10-hour day for all laborers, the Factory Act was the first major state intervention in the conditions of factory labor and set precedents for further factory acts in 1844, 1847, 1850, and 1853.

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Factory Act: Covered textile factories. Women and young persons to work in factories only between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. or 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Hours were raised from 10 to 10½ per day. 1853: Factory Act: Covered textile factories Children were only to work during the same hours as women and young persons: 1860: Bleach and Dye Works Act ...

The Factory Acts were first introduced in the early 19th century, with the initial legislation, the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802, followed by subsequent acts addressing broader issues in factory working conditions.

2015年3月31日 · 1842 Mines and Colleries Act : banned all women and children under 10 from working underground. No-one under 15 years was to work winding gear in mines.