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    The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom beginning in 1802 to regulate and improve the conditions of industrial...
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  • Saville designed advertising for the club, and in September Factory released an EP of music by acts who had played at the club (the Durutti Column, Joy Division...
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    some of the worst excesses of industrialization's factory-based society, labourers of Factory Acts leading the way in Britain. Trams, automobiles and...
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    some acts consolidate and reorganise prior acts; these are called consolidation acts. Inclosure Acts (various, mainly 1750 to 1860) Factory Acts (1802...
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    Mills and Factories Act 1819 which (although also ineffective for want of a means of proper enforcement) paved the way for subsequent Factory Acts that would...
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    liability of employers for injuries to their employees, &c. Factory acts have been passed by Factory nearly all the states of the Union. These may be and work-...
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    A factory inspector is someone who checks that factories comply with regulations affecting them. The enforcement of UK Factory Acts before that of 1833...
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    the mills, and the factory system led to organised labour. Poor conditions became the subject of exposés. In England, the Factory Acts were written to regulate...
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    conferred on this act by section 19 of the Factory Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 44). Oats, Henry Carne. The Factory Acts. V & R Stevens, Sons, & Haynes. 1862...
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    the creation of a citizen army to replace the professional army; the Factory Acts would be amended to extend to 21 the age for half-time employment, so...
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