...of 1840 was even thought of. In 1802 an Act was passed, owing to the influence of Sir Kobert Peel, " for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills." It is significant that the immediate cause of this bill was the...

...1834, L. 1818. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Lords' Committee to whom was referred the Bill for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton Mills and Factories. HL, 1818, IX. 1819. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Lords'...

...of women and children should be restricted within reasonable limits. The Act of 1802 was called one "for the preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton or other Factories." It is important in the history of...

...book of a comprehensive act dealing with the whole field of educational effort. In 1802 was passed an act for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills and factories ; in 1902-3 the principle of a unified administrative...

...testimony of unimpeachable witnesses. So crying did the evil become that in 1802, 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.' This bill owed its passage to the...

...morality alike were wanting. It was such conditions which compelled Sir Robert Peel in 1802 to pass an Act for " the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others." As time passed, this was followed by other legislation which merely tinkered with the tremendous questions...

...Bartley: Industrial Schools for the People, 1871, p. 326. legislative provision. This was entitled "An act for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills and factories." Among other things, the act provided that all apprentices...

...system was disclosing the serious dangers to which it exposed the workers. In 1802 an Act was passed "for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills and factories." Since then there has been a steady growth in the...

...and Temporal in Parliament Assembled. Petition of the proprietors of cotton factories considering an act for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other factories. LORIN, HENRI. Le probleme du coton colonial en France. Questions...

...revolution must have issued from such an hour. As early as 1802, an act was passed in the British Parliament ''for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills." Here begins the history of legislation restrictive of child labor....