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The Factory Act creates an inspectorate

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The Act prohibited the employment of children under nine in textile mills, restricted the hours of those aged nine to thirteen and of young persons under eighteen, required some schooling, and — decisively — established a small salaried inspectorate answerable to central government with the right to enter any mill and prosecute. Previous Acts had set limits without anyone to enforce them; this one did the opposite.

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  1. Story
  2. The Act prohibited the employment of children under nine in textile mills, restricted the hours of those aged nine to thirteen and of young persons under eighteen, required some schooling, and — decisively — established a small salaried inspectorate answerable to central government with the right to enter any mill and prosecute. Previous Acts had set limits without anyone to enforce them; this one did the opposite.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Industrial child labour
  5. The Factory Acts
  6. The Factory Inspectorate
  7. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
  8. Connections
  9. The Factory Acts
  10. The Factory Inspectorate
  11. Industrial child labour
  12. Industrial child labour
  13. The Factory Inspectorate
  14. The first factory statute is passed and largely ignored
  15. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
  16. The Ten Hours Act limits the working day for women and young persons
  17. The Factory Acts
  18. The British textile industry
  19. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
  20. The Ten Hours Act limits the working day for women and young persons
  21. Coal
  22. The Factory Acts
  23. The first factory statute is passed and largely ignored
  24. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
  25. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
  26. Evidence
  27. Supports the prohibition on employing children under nine in textile mills, the graduated hour limits for children and young persons, and the creation of a salaried factory inspectorate with powers of entry. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted — legislation.gov.uk is blocked from this session, so the regnal chapter citation is deliberately not given and the hour limits are stated only in summary.
  28. Supports the existence and working method of the inspectorate created in 1833, and stands as the principal contemporary record of hours, evasions, relay working and accidents on mill floors. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session; the series is real and widely digitised but no volume was opened here.
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