The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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CONDITIONS OF CHILDREN'S WORK 77 disappointed Robert Owen's hopes. It did not insist on a A-D.1776 ten hours limit, and its provisions remained inoperative; there was not sufficient inducement offered to stimulate the efforts of the common informer to enforce its provisions’, and comparatively little improvement resulted from the measure. No considerable share of public attention was directed to a og the subject till 1830, when Mr Richard Oastler began a against the crusade on the subject in Yorkshire®, and Michael Sadler took working of the matter up and obtained a Committee of the House of “de Commons; he arranged to bring a number of witnesses from the factory districts in order to establish his point that legislative interference was necessary. The session had closed, however, before the evidence which the employers?® desired to put in could be heard; and the sense of this onesidedness rankled in their minds, while the assertions were ih many re- spects untrustworthy< Still, the allegations were so frightful shat many people believed that immediate action was necessary at any cost; and the proposal, in the following year, to have a Commission was treated as a mere excuse for delay’, Public feeling was greatly excited, and a Bill was introduced by Mr Sadler, and in the following session by Lord Ashley®, but it was obviously impossible to attempt a remedy until the charges were thoroughly sifted, and an opinion could be formed as to the extent and character of the evils. A Com- and a Com. mission of enquiry was appointed, which was excellently ear organised, and obtained an extraordinary amount of accurate pointed to information in a short space of time. The Commission of 1833 specially addressed their en- juiries to the alleged degradation of the population as a age and fixed a limit of 12 hours, but even this might be exceeded to make up for stoppages due to want of water-power. + A reward was offered for the common informer; but as no one but the workmen employed in the mill were in a position to give information, and they would have lost their employment if they had come forward to initiate pro- ceedings, the whole was inoperative. Hutchins and Harrison, op. cit. 36. 2 Alfred (Samuel Kydd], History of the Factory Movement, 1. 96. His interest in the position of the slaves abroad led him to consider the condition of operatives at home. The movement for factory reform was thus directly associated with the Anti-Slavery agitation. & 3 Hansard, xv. p. 391. t See the opinion of Mr Drinkwater and Mr Power, Reports, 1833, xx. 491, 602. $ 3 Hansard, xvI. 640. 3 Mr Sadler failed to obtain re-election in the first reformed Parliament.

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