Working Conditions and Government Regulations

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“The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 1802

“Report from the committee on Parish Apprentices II April 1815

“Evidence before the Select Committee on the state of children employed in Manufactories, 1816

“Report from the Committee of the House of Commons on the petitions against the employment of boys in sweeping chimneys, 23 June 1817

“Debates in the House of Commons on the Factory Bill of 1819

“The Factory Act of 1819

“Debate in the House, of Commons on T. F. Buxton’s Motion for the Abolition of Slavery, 15 May 1823

“Richard Oastler on Yorkshire Slavery, 1830

“Richard Oastler on Yorkshire Slavery, 1831

“Richard Oastler on the Creation of a Tory-Radical Alliance for Factory Reform, 1852

“The Factory Act of 1831

“Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Richard Oastler on the Factory Bill of 1831

“Michael Sadler on the Need for Factory Reform, 1832

“Richard Oastler on Tory Principles and their Relevance to Factory Reform, 1833

“Robert Owen’s National Regeneration Society calls for an eight hour day, 1833

“Evidence Before Michael Thomas Sadler’s Parliamentary Select Committee 0n Child Labor In Factories, 1831-32

“Speech of Michael Sadler in the House of Commons, on the second reading of the Factories Regulation Bill, 13 March 1832

“Parliamentary Evidence of Richard Oastler on Yorkshire Slavery 1832

“Report of Commissioners on the employment of children in factories, 1833

“Poster for a Ten Hour Bill 1833

“Factories Regulation Act 1833

“Church of England Support for Factory Reform 1833

“Andrew Ure Defends the Factory System’s use of Child Labor and Long Hours, 1835

“John Fielden on the need for Factory Reform 1836

“A Factory Inspector’s report on the improved attitude of mill owners under the Factory Act, 1837

“R. H. Greg on the Dangers of Factory Legislation, 1837

“John Clark, a Worker, on John Wood, Benevolent Factory Owner, c.1840

“Richard Oastler on his Tory Reform Principles, 1841

“William Dodd, The Factory System Illustrated (Visits to Leeds and Manchester), 1842

W. Cooke Taylor, Notes of A Tour In The Manufacturing Districts Of Lancashire (Manchester and Environs), 1842

“The economy of shorter hours- letter from Gardner’s of Preston, to the chairman of meeting in Corn Exchange, Manchester, 22 April 1845

“Fielden’s Ten Hour Act