Some experts, however, do believe there was some reduction in the number of young working children and reduced labor hours.
What labor reforms came out of these investigations?
Following the investigations, a series of Factory Acts were passed to reform labor practices over many years. The first three were the Factory Act of 1833, the Factory Act of 1844 and the Factory Act of 1847. The Factory Act of 1833 limed hours of employment for women and children in textile work with the following provisions:
Young people (ages 13-18) must not work more than 10 hours a day.
Children (ages 9-13) must not work more than 9 hours (48 hours per week).
Children (ages 9-13) must have two hours of education per day.
Later, the Factory Act of 1844, also applicable to the textile industry, further reduced hours of work for children and extended many provisions of the Factory Act of 1833 to women. It also added addressed unsanitary and unsafe working conditions. Key provisions included:
Children 8-13 years could not work more than six and a half hours a day.
Women and young people now worked the same number of hours. They could not worm more than 12 hours a day during the week, including one a half hours for meals and 9 hours on Sundays.
Factory owners must wash factories with lime every fourteen months
Ages must be verified by surgeons and accidental death must be reported to a surgeon and investigated.
Machinery was to be fenced in.
After the Whigs gained parliamentary power, the Factory Act of 1847 limited the workday...
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