Ten hours factory bill
Subtitle: the speech of Lord Ashley, M.P., in the House of Commons on Friday, 10th May, 1844, on moving "that the clause (and be it enacted, that from and after the 1st day of October in the present year, no young person shall be employed in any factory more than eleven hours in any one day, or more tha sixty-four hours in any one week, and that from and after the 1st day of October 1847, no young person shall be employed in any factory more than ten hours in any one day, or more than fifty-eight hours in any one week, and that any person who shall be convicted of employing a young person for any longer time than is in and by this clause permitted, shall for every such offence be adjudged to pay a penalty of not less than £ , and not more than £ ), be now read a second time."
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 33898; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: J. Ollivier
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Hours of labor; Youth; Employment; Wages
Notes: Master microform held by: ResP.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 33898.