...Factory legislation dates back as far as 1802, when the following was enacted by the British Parliament: "An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in the Cotton and other Factories." This act was the nucleus from which all factory and sanitary legislation...

...districts of Manchester, in 1802 introduced an act " for the preservation of the health and morals of the apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills, and cotton and other factories;" in 1819, an attempt was made to fix the age at which children should enter mills; in 1829, Sir John...

...England's factory inspection dates back to 1802, when a law entitled : "An act for the betier protection of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other factories" was enacted. Following closely upon this legislation came France and Germany, then followed...

...districts of Manchester, in 1802 introduced an act " for the preservation of the health and morals of the apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills, and cotton and other factories ; " in 1819, an attempt was made to fix the age at which children should enter mills ; in 1829, Sir...

...English legislature. In that year the first Factory Act (42 Geo. III., c. 73) was passed ; being entitled "An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices employed in Cotton and other Mills, and in Cotton and other Factories;" where the words mill and factory...

...English legislature. In that year the first Factory Act (42 Geo. III., c. 73) was passed; being entitled "An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices employed in Cotton and other Mills, and in Cotton and other Factories ;" where the words mill and factory...

...Viet. 19 & 20 Viet. c. 38 24 & 25 Viet. c. 117. 26 & 27 Viet. c. 40 27 & 28 Viet. c. 48 Title of Act. An Act for the preservation of the health and morals...cotton and other mills, and cotton and other factories. An Act to regulate the labour of children and young persons in the mills and factories of the United...

...reaction against the utilitarian conception of the State äs existing merely to enforce contracts«.1) The »Act for the preservation of the Health and Morals...and other Mills, and Cotton and other Factories« was passed on the motion of Sir Robert Peel in 1802. The Act was, however, limited in its application...

...industry.1 In the same year he carried the act which was the forerunner of all factory legislation: ' An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals...others, employed in Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton und other Factories.' lie himself was the employer at this period of some fifteen thousand persons....

...reaction against the utilitarian conception of the State as existing merely to enforce contracts.' 1 The ' Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals...Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton and other Factories' (42 Geo. III. c. 78) was passed on the motion of Sir Robert Peel in 1802. The Act was, however, limited...