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factory acts: see labor law labor law, legislation dealing with human beings in their capacity as workers or wage earners. The Industrial Revolution, by introducing the machine and factory production, greatly expanded the class of workers dependent on wages as their source of income. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The last two chapters lay out responses to these struggles by examining the negotiated middle ground between employer and worker found after the 1847 Factory Act. The majority of "abolitionist" MPs favored the Factory Act of 1833 and resisted at least some parts of the New Poor Law. |
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