An Inquiry Into the Principle and Tendency of the Bill Now Pending in Parliament, for Imposing Certain Restrictions on Cotton Factories
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An Inquiry Into the Principle and Tendency of the Bill Now Pending in Parliament, for Imposing Certain Restrictions on Cotton Factories

An Inquiry Into the Principle and Tendency of the Bill Now Pending in Parliament, for Imposing Certain Restrictions on Cotton Factories


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt: ... of evidence, and therefore justly considered as a genuine exposition of that gentleman's sentiments concerning the situation of the young persons employed in cotton factories. He there says, "I most anxiously press upon the Committee, that unless some parliamentary interference takes place, the benefits of the Apprentice Bill will soon be entirely lost, the practice of employing parish apprentices will cease, their places will be wholly supplied by other children, between whom and their masters no permanent contract is likely to exist, and for whose good treatment there tuill not be the slightest security. If parish apprentices were formerly deemed worthy of the care of parliament, I trust you will not withhold from the unprotected children of the present day an equal measure of mercy, as they have no masters wlw are obliged to support them in sickness, or during unfavourable periods of trade." Here the young persons for whose protection the bill is framed are, through some strange mistake, represented to be exposed, forlorn and unprotected, to any excess of labour which the avarice of their employer may exact, and to all the hardships which his inhumanity may inflict. Why bewail the forlorn state of those who have never felt their paternal home? What is meant by talking of children being exposed to hardships without protection, who are constantly under the eye of their natural guardians, many of them even during the time when they are engaged in labour? How is there "not the slightest security for their good treatment," when their own parents have the unceasing superintendence of them, and thus can either prevent injury, or instantly remove them beyond the reach of its influence? What though they have no masters "obliged to maintain them in sickness, or ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154523645
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154523640
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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