Demy 8vo, Cloth, 384 pp. 10s. 8d. net.

A HISTORY

OF FACTORY.

LEGISLATION.

By B. L. HUTCHINS and
A, HARRISON, B.A. (Lond.).

WITH A PREFACE BY SIDNEY WEBB, LL.B.

Standard.—‘ The value of the book does not depend om its maintenance of
a proposition, but on its importance as a contribution to the study of economic
history.”
Newcastle Leader,—** This is an exceedingly valuable book, and is worthy
of being classed amongst the best of our standard works on industrial history.
Hitherto the student of economic science has been unable to put his hand upon
anything like a complete and systematic history of English factory legislation.
This volume is much more than a mere record of the passing and repealing of
aumerous Acts of Parliament, It is an exposition of the evolution of a new
social philosophy which has at length commended itself to the practical judgment
 of the civilised world. Modern factory legislation may be said to have
begun with the ‘ Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 1802," and ended for the
moment with the Factory and Workshops Acts Consolidation Act, gor. The
authors have been able to show that the history of factory legislation begins with
no abstract theory of social justice or the rights of man. Every successive Act
appears to have aimed at remedying an ascertained evil or evils. Once practical
statesmen became convinced that remedial legislation was necessary, nothing
was allowed to stand in the way.”
Labour Leader.—‘‘ A wonderfully interesting history of a most important
period of our industrial development, . . . This history of factory legislation
is a perfect mine of social facts of the utmost importance.”

P. S. KING &amp; SON, OrcHARD House, WESTMINSTER.