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.

In his book he explained the 1874 Factory Act. The textile operatives, besides being the first to benefit by factory laws, had by this time become a well-organised body outside their sphere, …

Factory Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict.) CHAPTER 44. An Act to make better provision for improving the health of women, young persons, and children employed in manufactures, and the education …

An Act to make better provision for improving the health of women, young persons, and children employed in manufactures, and the education of such children, and otherwise to amend the …

1874 Factory Act raised the minimum working age to nine; limited the working day for women and young people to 10 hours in the textile industry, to be between 6 am and 6 pm; and reduced …

1874: Factory Act. This forbade employment of children in mills under the age of 9. In 1875 the age limit was raised to 10. Children aged 8 could still be employed in workshops and non …

Abstract In 1874 Parliament passed a law entitled ‘The Factories (Health of Women. etc) Act’ which limited the hours that women and children could work in textile factories to a 56 1/2 hour …

2021年7月31日 · The Factories (Health of Women, &c.) Act of 1874 raised the age at which children could work in factories to 9, rising to 10 after a year. An additional half hour each for …

In October 1874 a long article in the Argus entitled ‘ The Factories of Melbourne ’, argued that ‘many manufactories in Melbourne were neglecting to comply with the regulations’, citing …

laws regulating working conditions in factories and plants in the era of industrial capitalism. The emergence and development of factory acts resulted from the economic and political struggle …