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... 1833, Parliament passed An Act to regulate the Labor of Children and Young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom. Also known as the Factory Act, it was "[t]he first significant legislation passed anywhere in the world to attempt to deal with the appalling conditions faced by workers laboring in factories." Its principal concern was labor by children; the statute, excerpted here, limited to 48 the hours that children could work in mills or factories in a given week, and it further guaranteed them 2 full and 8 half-day holidays a year.
(Prior August 29 posts are here, here, here, here, and here.)
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