Factory Acts

We have to make sure the Factory Acts are being observed for safety and health."

Now this is a reputable firm there are plenty of Factory Acts.

The Factory Acts dating from 1803 required minimum standards on hours and conditions of working children.

She also mentioned the Factory Acts as a restriction on women's usefulness to employers.

Were the Factory Acts of the early nineteenth century a disruption of the economic order?

Although the Act was ineffective in its implementation, it paved the way for future Factory acts which would regulate the industry.

They also, however, supported voluntary effort and legislation, such as the Factory Acts, to help children who lacked adequate family support.

Unsurprisingly, a series of Factory Acts were passed to attempt to ameliorate these conditions.

The most common provisions of the factory acts in the various states are those which fix an age limit below which employment is unlawful.

The Act was the final consolidation of a line of legislation under Factory Acts that began in 1802.

Child labor was gradually reduced and halted in England via the Factory Acts of 1802-1878.

The Factory Acts of 1891 and 1895 made provision for the regulation of homework, but the numbers remained hard to calculate.

Only in 1833 and 1844 were the first general protective laws against child labour, the Factory Acts, passed in Britain.

They also together edited The Condition of Working Women and the Factory Acts, 1896.

Working of the Cotton Cloth Factories Acts (1897)

Many of the former Factory acts, including New Order, found a new home at London Records.

Parliament finally agreed to these requests as part of the 1847 Factory Acts and Doherty's relentless work had paid off.

The provisions of the factory acts relating to hours of labour and night work generally affect only the employment of women and young persons.

The Austrian Code has its origin, however, like the British Factory Acts, in protection of child labour.

Poor conditions in cotton mills became the subject of exposés, and in England, the Factory Acts were written to regulate them.

Factory Acts (UK)

Redgrave, Factory Acts (London, 1897)

Although few members were factory workers, it helped lobby for factory acts in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Nova Scotia.

Regulation curbed some of the worst excesses of industrialization's factory-based society, a series of Factory Acts leading the way in Britain.

The inspector has also the duty of enforcing the Truck Acts in places, and in respect of persons, under the Factory Acts.