Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Factory_Acts> ?p ?o }
- Factory_Acts abstract "The Factory Acts were a series of UK labour law Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the conditions of industrial employment. The early Acts concentrated on regulating the hours of work and moral welfare of young children employed in cotton mills but were effectively unenforced until the Act of 1833 established a professional Factory Inspectorate. The regulation of working hours was then extended to women by an Act of 1844. An Act in 1847 (the Ten Hour Act) (together with Acts in 1850 and 1853 remedying defects in the 1847 Act) met a long- standing (and by 1847 well-organised) demand by the millworkers for a ten-hour day. The Factory Acts also sought to ameliorate the conditions under which mill-children worked with requirements on ventilation, sanitation, and guarding of machinery. Introduction of the ten-hour day proved to have none of the dire consequences predicted by its opponents, and its apparent success effectively ended theoretical objections to the principle of factory legislation; from the 1860s onwards more industries were brought within the Factory Act, until by 1910, Sidney Webb reviewing the cumulative effect of century of factory legislation felt able to writeThe system of regulation which began with the protection of the tiny class of pauper apprentices in textile mills now includes within its scope every manual worker in every manufacturing industry. From the hours of labour and sanitation, the law has extended to the age of commencing work, protection against accidents, mealtimes and holidays, the methods of remuneration, and in the United Kingdom as well as in the most progressive of English-speaking communities, to the rate of wages itself. The range of Factory Legislation has, in fact, in one country or another, become co-extensive with the conditions of industrial employment. No class of manual-working wage-earners, no item in the wage-contract, no age, no sex, no trade or occupation, is now beyond its scope. This part, at any rate, of Robert Owen's social philosophy has commended itself to the practical judgment of the civilised world. It has even, though only towards the latter part of the nineteenth century, converted the economists themselves -converted them now to a " legal minimum wage " — and the advantage of Factory Legislation is now as soundly " orthodox " among the present generation of English, German, and American professors as " laisser-faire " was to their predecessors. ... Of all the nineteenth century inventions in social organisation, Factory Legislation is the most widely diffused.He also commented on the gradual (accidentally almost Fabian) way this transformation had been achievedThe merely empirical suggestions of Dr. Thomas Percival and the Manchester Justices of 1784 and 1795, and the experimental legislation of the elder Sir Robert Peel in 1802, were expanded by Robert Owen in 1815 into a general principle of industrial government, which came to be applied in tentative instalments by successive generations of Home Office administrators. ...This century of experiment in Factory Legislation affords a typical example of English practical empiricism. We began with no abstract theory of social justice or the rights of man. We seem always to have been incapable even of taking a general view of the subject we were legislating upon. Each successive statute aimed at remedying a single ascertained evil. It was in vain that objectors urged that other evils, no more defensible existed in other trades, or among other classes, or with persons of ages other than those to which the particular Bill applied. Neither logic nor consistency, neither the over-nice consideration of even-handed justice nor the Quixotic appeal of a general humanitarianism, was permitted to stand in the way of a practical remedy for a proved wrong. That this purely empirical method of dealing with industrial evils made progress slow is scarcely an objection to it. With the nineteenth century House of Commons no other method would have secured any progress at all.".
- Factory_Acts thumbnail Baines_1835-Mule_spinning.png?width=300.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink historyoffactory014402mbp.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink IRchild.htm.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink 1802act.htm.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink factleg.htm.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink view.php?doc=2624.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink IR1847.htm.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageExternalLink workingconditions.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageID "2569621".
- Factory_Acts wikiPageLength "89149".
- Factory_Acts wikiPageOutDegree "103".
- Factory_Acts wikiPageRevisionID "680062318".
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink 1833_(3_&_4_Will._IV).
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink 1842_General_Strike.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink 1_&_2_Will._IV.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink 59_Geo._III.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink 7_&_8_Vict_c._15.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Act_of_Parliament.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Anthony_Ashley-Cooper,_7th_Earl_of_Shaftesbury.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Ashton-under-Lyne.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Articles_containing_video_clips.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Child_labour.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Childrens_rights_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cotton_production.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Health_and_safety_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1802.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1819.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1833.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1844.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1847.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1850.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1867.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1878.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_Acts_of_Parliament_1891.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:United_Kingdom_labour_law.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Category:Womens_rights_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Dickens.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Hindley_(politician).
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Poulett_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Sydenham.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Chartism.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_England.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Clergy.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Clergyman.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Collective_title.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Confirmation.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Corn_Laws.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Cotton_mill.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Darley_Abbey.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Fabian_Society.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Factory_inspector.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink File:Toll_bridge_and_mill_across_the_River_Derwent.JPG.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Fox_Maule-Ramsay,_11th_Earl_of_Dalhousie.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Harriet_Martineau.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Health_and_Safety_at_Work_etc._Act_1974.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Health_and_safety_regulations_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink History_of_labour_law_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Home_Office.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Home_Secretary.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink John_Cam_Hobhouse.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink John_Fielden.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink John_Hobhouse,_1st_Baron_Broughton.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink John_Marshall_(MP_for_Leeds,_died_1836).
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Justice_of_the_Peace.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Justice_of_the_peace.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Labour_law.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Leeds_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Leeds_Mercury.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1801–19.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1820–39.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom,_1840–59.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Manchester.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Manchester,_England.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Mass_(liturgy).
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Thomas_Sadler.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Mines_Act_of_1842.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Mines_and_Collieries_Act_1842.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Plug_Plot_Riots.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Poor_Law_Amendment_Act_1834.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink President_of_the_Board_of_Trade.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Radcliffe,_Greater_Manchester.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Monckton_Milnes,_1st_Baron_Houghton.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Oastler.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink River_Derwent,_Derbyshire.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Owen.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Peel.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Assent.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Royal_assent.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Sadler_report.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Secretary_of_State_for_Business,_Innovation_and_Skills.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Shift_work.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Sidney_Webb.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Sidney_Webb,_1st_Baron_Passfield.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Sir_George_Grey,_2nd_Baronet.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Sir_George_Strickland,_7th_Baronet.
- Factory_Acts wikiPageWikiLink Sir_James_Graham,_2nd_Baronet.