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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. . |
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The all-important Factory Acts rarely figure, it seems, in discussions about the law, but Joanna Innes ponders the genesis of the first of these bills in "Origins of the Factory Acts: the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 1802". |
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