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A Palestinian child labourer at the Kalya Junction, Lido beach, Delek petrol station, road 90 near the Dead Sea A child labourer in Dhaka, Bangladesh Child coal miners in Prussia, late 19th century A succession of laws on child labour, the Factory Acts, were passed in the UK in the 19th century.
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.
The Chimney Sweepers Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3.c. 48) was a British Act of Parliament passed to try to stop child labour.Many boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps.
In 1819, 4.5% of all cotton workers were under the age of 10 and 54.5% were under the age of 19. [7] In 1833, children made up around 33% to 66% of all workers in textile mills . [ 2 ] In the same year, 10% to 20% of all workers in cotton, wool, flax, and silk mills were under the age of 13, and 23% to 57% of all workers in those same mills ...
The Chimney Sweepers Regulation Act 1864 [1] (27 & 28 Vict. c. 37) was a British Act of Parliament that amended the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act 1840 passed to try to stop child labour.
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 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 ...
The Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 (59 Geo. 3.c. 66) stated that no children under 9 were to be employed and that children aged 9–16 years were limited to 12 hours' work per day. [3]
The limit of 12 hours was reduced, as regards works in which women or young workers are employed, in 1900 to II, and was to be successively reduced to 102 hours and to hours at intervals of two years from April 1900. This labour law for adults was preceded in 1841 by one for children, which prevented their employment in factories before 8 years ...