...in the year 1 802, and after many reverses he ultimately obtained the act known as the 42d Geo. Ill, "for the preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others, employed in Cotton and other mills." This act is chiefly interesting because it established the principle...

...vigorous effort to remedy the evils clustering around the apprenticeship system. An act was passed for the "Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others, employed in Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton and other factories."1 This law ordered every master...

...away, were fettered with chains. As a result of these disgraceful conditions an Act was passed in 1802 "for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills." Though this early enactment proved a step in the right direction,...

...III, Section III, No. 12, page 576.] 9. THE FIRST FACTORY ACT [Statutes, 42 Geo. III, 87], 1802. An act for the preservation of the. health and morals of apprentices and others, employed in* cotton and other mills, and cotton and other factories. . . . All such mills and factories...

...awakening, in which the first signs of a social consciousness began to appear. In 1802 Parliament passed an act "for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills." Slave trade was prohibited in 1806; women have not been punished...

...agitation against these conditions led, in 1802, to an Act being passed by the influence of Sir Robert Peel for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills. The immediate cause of this was the fearful spread through the...

...situation must be faced, and passed in 1802 the first compulsory Education Act. It was entitled an " Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Mills and Factories other than Cotton Mills." Little public interest Was taken in the subject...

...Bill to Amend and Extend an Act made in the forty-second year of his present Majesty (George III.) for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories." Its chief proposals were that no...

...which initiated legislation for factories and for compulsory schooling. Its title is instructive: "An Act for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills and cotton and other factories." The employer was, by this Act,...

...slaves of the factory-system sickens the imagination. As early as 1802, legislation was necessary, "for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills," because of the ravages of a terrible disease in the factory districts,...