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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.
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An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, [x] to enable the School Boards for West Ham, Tottenham, Portsmouth, Chiswick, and Hackford and Whitwell United District to put in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, [y] and the Acts amending the same.
Under the "Particulars Clause", first included in a Factory Act 1891 and given extended application in 1895, the particulars required for the calculation of wages must be rendered by the employer. In spinning there used to be doubts about the quantity of work done, so the "indicator", which measures the length of yarn spun came into general use.
Slight amendments were attempted in the Cotton Mills Regulation Act 1825 and the Labour in Cotton Mills Act 1831, but the first really important Factory Act was the Factory Act 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 ...
Factory Acts; M. Museums and Gymnasiums Act 1891 ... Penal Servitude Act; Public Health (London) Act 1891; S. Slander of Women Act 1891; ... Wikipedia® is a ...
An Act to amend the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway (New Ross and Waterford Extension) Act 1897 [l] and to enable the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway Company to alter the level of a certain public road in the townland of Rosbercon and county of Wexford and to carry Railway No. 1 authorised by the said Act across the said road on the level ...
A celebration was held on the same day in the courtyard of the factory. The new schedule was called "3–8 schedule". The first shift worked 6 am – 2 pm; the 2nd shift 2 pm – 10 pm; the 3rd shift 10 pm – 6 am. Manager Wu Jingyi reasoned: "All of the factories now have a 12-hour work schedule.