Evils of the factory system
Subtitle: demonstrated by parliamentary evidence
Series: Reprints of economic classics
Publisher: A.M. Kelley
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Factory system; Child labor; Children; Employment
Notes: Reprint of the 1837 ed.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Dissertation on the evils of the factory system; title: Evidence of medical men and others in 1816, before the Committee of the House of Commons; title: Evidence of medical men in 1818, before the Committee of the House of Lords; title: Evidence of medical men and others in 1819, before the House of Lords; title: Extracts from Dr. Bisset Hawkins' report, ordered to be printed by the House of Commons in 1834.; title: Appendix to pt. I. Ages of people employed in cotton factories in Lancashire and Glasgow from Dr. Mitchell's tables; title: The average clear weekly earnings, &c., from Dr. Hawkins' report; title: Table as to age, sex, and number of factory artisans; title: Summary of the day and evening schools, and of the children receiving education, in the Borough of Manchester.; title: pt. II. Abridgment of the evidence of operatives, clergymen, and others, taken before Mr. Sadler's committee in 1832; title: Evidence at full of the medical men taken before Mr. Sadler's committee in 1832, alphabetical arranged; title: Parliamentary debate on the Factories Regulation Bill, in 1832; title: First report of the Central Board of his Majesty's Commissioners; title: Second report of the Central Board of his Majesty's Commissioners; title: Parliamentary debate upon Mr. P. Thomson's motion for the second reading of the Factories Act Amendment Bill; title: Act for Regulating the Labour of Children and Young Persons, August 29th, 1833; title: Factory statistics, by the late Mr. Sadler; title: Correspondence between Mr. Wilson and Mr. Stuart; title: Tables from Dr. Bisset Hawkins' work on medical statistics; title: Division upon Mr. P. Thomson's motion for the second reading of the Factories Act Amendment Bill.