Factory Acts
From Graces Guide
The Wikipedia entry provides a comprehensive summary of the various Bills and Acts passed by the UK Parliament to regulate and improve the conditions of industrial employment. The following headings and minimal information are drawn from that entry, but reference to the full Wikipedia text is recommended, particularly since it highlights some of the bills and other activities which attempted to improve or undermine some of the effects of the Acts:-
- The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802, introduced by Robert Peel (1750-1830)
- The Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 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
- Cotton Mills Regulation Act 1825 (Bill introduced by John Cam Hobhouse )
- Act to Amend the Laws relating to the employment of Children in Cotton Mills & Manufactories 1829
- Labour in Cotton Mills Act 1831 (Hobhouse's Act)
- Labour of Children, etc., in Factories Act 1833 (Althorp's Act) - The first 'Ten Hour Bill' – Sadler's Bill (1832), Ashley's Bill (1833). Dissatisfied with the outcome of Hobhouse's efforts, in 1832 Michael Thomas Sadler introduced a Bill extending the protection existing Factory Acts gave to children working in the cotton industry to those in other textile industries, and reducing to ten per day the working hours of children in the industries legislated for.
- Althorp's Act (1833)
- Factories Act 1844 (Sir James Graham's Factory Act)
- Factories Act 1847
- Factories Act 1850 (the 'Compromise Act')
- Factories Act 1856
- Factories Act Extension Act 1867
- Factories (Health of Women, &c.) Act (1874)
- Factory and Workshop Act 1878 (the 'Consolidation Act')
- Factory Act 1891
- Factory and Workshop Act 1895
- Factory and Workshop Act 1901
- Factories Act 1937
- Factories Act 1959
- Factories Act 1961
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