Year: | 1802 | ||
Short description: | Health and Morals of Apprentices Bill passed | ||
Medium description: | Health and Morals of Apprentices Bill passed. Promoted by Robert Peel the elder, it was mainly concerned with restrictions of child factory workers' working hours and conditions but also included that there should be provision for instruction in the 3 'R's' and 1 hour of religious teaching on Sundays. Act only applied to "apprentices sent from from workhouses by public authorities to be employed in the larger cotton and woollen mills" (Barnard, 1961, p.63) | ||
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