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year, old worker in a coal mine:
I'm generally in the dark
stand and open and shut the door. and sit me down against the door; I stop 12 hours in the pit. I never see daylight now except on Sundays, I fell asleep one day and a cart ran over my leg and made it smart.
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8. One London parish made an arrangement with a factory in Lancashire
that one ulot child was to be taken with every twenty sound children,
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The Times' in 1838 pointed out that half the children working as being 13 were often less than 11; that convictions only resulted in half crown fines; that inspectors rarely visited factories and usually gave notice of their visits; that clocks were often tampered with to get more work out of children.
Reforms
1. In second half of 19th century the right or the State as over
employer was demonstrated and finally crystallised into Acts of Parliament.
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Tactpry Acts all contained some sort of regulation with regard education of children employed but this meant nothing. 1. Now until Factory Act of 1935 which limited labour of children to
#8 bolas a weak and ordered 2 hours daily schooling, that any real reginning was made.
4. Education Acts of 1870-1900 put a stop to the work of children during
school hours and Act of 1876 requiring that children under 10 should not rock at all.
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5. 1878 Tautory and Workshops Act only allowed children between the
ages of 10 and 14 to work as half-timers and compelled children to atto: some "recognised efficient schooling,
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in 1907 factories in U.K. employed 1,099,841 people under 18. Many children at this time were engaged in work before and after school and at weekends in 2) chops b) street trading c) domestic work and nome industries d) agriculture, Hours of work varied from 10-70 hours per week.
MAYHEM - RXTRACTS FROM "LONDON PALOUR AND THE LONDON POOR'
Two Orphan Flower Girls 15 and 1 lived in a house let out in rooms and inhabited by street sellers and labourers.
"The two of us doesn't make less than 6d per day, unless its very ill luck. Dub religion teaches us God will support us, and if we make less we pay nothing.
Flower 01-1
Sent out into the streets at the age of 9 to sell flowers father used to myply her with money to but flowers and she used to take the prosceds of the day's work home to her parcats. Father and Mother did no work but lived on what she brought ho no (usually via prostitution.) Tather gavo hor no supper if she did not carn enough money - then she vent hop-picking in Kent - returned to flower selling in the spring but was able to earn money and tried to get herself into an asylum. said she was sick and tired of life.
She
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