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1844 Factory Acts & 1842 Mines Act
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Thesis
Workers in mines and factories had to withstand horrendous conditions in order to earn money and survive, however, the acts played a huge role in improving their labor.
http://www.dipity.com/lordam95/Section-3-Chapter-9/
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html
1842 Mines Act
&
1844 Factory Acts
Three Topics
Background
Impact
What were they?
- Employed Children
- Mistreated
- Long hours
- Low wages
Bibliography
- Passed by Parliament of U.K.
- Shaftesbury, 1842
- Graham's Factory Act, 1844
- Sanitation
- Working hours
- Minimum age
- Inspectors
- Register
http://romancingthepast.blogspot.com/2012/02/felling-mine-disaster.html
http://www.equalfuturz.net/timeline/past/around_1900/chocolate.aspx
Reasons
http://www.dipity.com/carper95/The-Industrial-Revolution-The-beginnings-of-Industrialization/
- Royal Commission report
- “brutality, accidents, long hours...and horrific conditions of work”
- Regulate working hours
- Jobs open to children in mines.
- Improve working conditions.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/energyhall/page127.asp
Conclusion
The 1842 Mine Act and 1844 Factory Act set humane restrictions for all workers including women and young people to ensure healthier working conditions and a suitable amount of working hours per day.
By: Kholood Sheta and Nadine El Far
Relation to Hard Times
Bloy, Marjorie. "The 1842 Mines Act." A Web of English History. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. <http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/factmine/minesact.htm>.
Cooke-Taylor, R.W.. "1844 Factory Act." Spartacus Educational. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IR1844.htm>.
Cruikshank, James. "Eyewitness Children at work, 1842." My Time Machine. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. <http://www.mytimemachine.co.uk/pinfactory.htm>.
"Factory Acts." Angry Harry. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. <http://www.angryharry.com/refactoryacts.htm>.
"Mines Act." TalkTalk. Helicon Publishing. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. <http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0052816.html>.
- "'the Hands'" (Dickens, 89)
- "They readers...after fifteen hours' work..." (Dickens, 73)
- "the Hands, men and women, boy and girl..." (Dickens, 90)
- "...as if they was figures in a soom, or machines; wi'out love and liken, wi'out memories and inclinations" (Dickens, 203)
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/energyhall/page127.asp