The Ten Hours Act limits the working day for women and young persons

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1. Story
2. After more than a decade of campaigning by the Ten Hours movement, Parliament limited women and young persons in textile mills to ten hours a day. Because mills could not easily run adult men separately from the rest of the workforce, the limit propagated in practice well beyond the categories it named — an early demonstration that regulating part of a workforce regulates the whole shift.
3. Knowledge
4. The Factory Acts
5. The Factory Inspectorate
6. The Ten Hours Act limits the working day for women and young persons
7. Connections
8. The Factory Acts
9. The Factory Inspectorate
10. Industrial child labour
11. The Factory Inspectorate
12. The first factory statute is passed and largely ignored
13. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
14. The Ten Hours Act limits the working day for women and young persons
15. The Factory Acts
16. The British textile industry
17. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
18. The Ten Hours Act limits the working day for women and young persons
19. Evidence
20. Supports the ten-hour limit on the working day of women and young persons in textile mills. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the regnal citation is omitted for the same reason as the 1833 Act.
21. 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.