Resources: Working Conditions
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- The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 1802
- Report from the committee on Parish Apprentices, 11 April 1815
- Evidence before the Select Committee on the state of children employed in Manufactories, 1816
- Report from the Committee of the House of Commons on the petitions against the employment of boys in sweeping chimneys, 23 June 1817
- Debates in the House of Commons on the Factory Bill of 1819
- The Factory Act of 1819
- Debate in the House, of Commons on T. F. Buxton's Motion for the Abolition of Slavery, 15 May 1823
- Richard Oastler on Yorkshire Slavery, 1830
- Richard Oastler on Yorkshire Slavery, 1831
- Richard Oastler on the Creation of a Tory-Radical Alliance for Factory Reform, 1852
- The Factory Act of 1831
- Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Richard Oastler on the Factory Bill of 1831
- Michael Sadler on the Need for Factory Reform, 1832
- Richard Oastler on Tory Principles and their Relevance to Factory Reform, 1833
- Robert Owen's National Regeneration Society calls for an eight hour day, 1833
- Evidence Before Michael Sadler's Parliamentary Select Committee on Child Labor in Factories, 1831-32
- Speech of Michael Sadler in the House of Commons, on the second reading of the Factories Regulation Bill, 13 March 1832
- Parliamentary Evidence of Richard Oastler on 'Yorkshire Slavery,' 1832
- Report of Commissioners on the employment of children in factories, 1833
- Francis Place on his Opposition to the Regulation of Working Hours in Factories, c. 1835
- Poster for a Ten Hour Bill, 1833
- John Fielden on the need for Factory Reform, 1836
- Factories Regulation Act, 1833
- Church of England Support for Factory Reform, 1833
- Andrew Ure Defends the Factory System's use of Child Labor and Long Hours, 1835
- A Factory Inspector's report on the improved attitude of millowners under the Factory Act, 1837
- R. H. Greg on the Dangers of Factory Legislation, 1837
- John Clark, a Worker, on John Wood, a Benevolent Factory Owner, c. 1840
- Richard Oastler on his Tory Reform Principles, 1841
- William Dodd, The Factory System Illustrated (Visits to Leeds and Manchester), 1842
- W. Cooke Taylor, Notes Of A Tour In The Manufacturing Districts Of Lancashire (Manchester and Environs), 1842
- The economy of shorter hours: letter from Gardner's of Preston, to the chairman of a meeting in the Corn Exchange, Manchester, 22 April 1845
- Fielden's Ten Hours' Act, 1847