The consequent Factory Act of 1833 and its establishment of the UK Factory Inspectorate is often taken to mark the start of modern / effective factory legislation in the UK . The report of Sadler s Committee therefore led to an important advance in factory legislation, but did so indirectly.
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The consequent Factory Act of 1833 and its establishment of the UK Factory Inspectorate is often taken to mark the start of modern / effective factory legislation in the UK . The report of Sadler s Committee therefore led to an important advance in factory legislation, but did so indirectly.
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In addition to his duties in Oxford, Davis took up a post on the unemployment insurance committee under fellow Balliol man Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh, and in 1927 he went to Geneva as British representative on a committee set up by the International Labour Organization to investigate and report on factory legislation in Europe.
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Meanwhile, petitions both for and against the Bill had been presented to the Commons; both Peel and Sir George Strickland had warned that the Bill as it stood was too ambitious : more MPs had spoken for further factory legislation than against, but many supporters wanted the subject to be considered by a Select Committee.
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In 1886 he contributed to the " Jahrbuch f�r National�konomie " ( vol . xiii, No . 6 ), " Zur Fabrikgesetzgebung, " a review of government reports on factory legislation in Switzerland and Saxony, and to the " Jahrbuch f�r Gesetzgebung " ( x . 3 ), " Er�terungen �ber die Fiskalische Behandlung der Verkehrsanstalten . " In that year, too, appeared his " National�konomische Studien, " Stuttgart, 1886.
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In most of the great inquiries into conditions of child labour the fact has come clearly to light, in regard to textile and nontextile trades alike, that parents as much as any employers have been responsible for too early employment and excessive hours of employment of children, and from early times until to-day in factory legislation it has been recognised that they must to some extent be held responsible for due observation of the limits imposed.
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He had a hand in the amendments of the Public Health and of the Medical Acts, always promoting the medical profession above others in the public health field; in the measures relating to notification of infectious disease, to vaccination, to the registration of plumbers; in the improvement of factory legislation; in the remedy of legitimate grievances of Army and Navy medical officers; in the removal of abuses and deficiencies in crowded barrack schools; in denouncing the sanitary shortcomings of the Indian government, particularly in regard to the prevention of cholera.
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As Massachusetts was the state which first recognized the necessity of regulating employment ( following in a measure, and so far as conditions demanded, the English labour or factory legislation ), the history of such legislation in that state is indicative of that in the United States, and as it would be impossible in this article to give a detailed history of the origin of laws in the different states, the dates of their enactment, and their provisions, it is best to follow primarily the course of the Eastern states, and especially that of Massachusetts, where the first general agitation took place and the first laws were enacted.
