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

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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.

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