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    MACHINES, FACTOKIES, AND FACTORY ACTS. 3...

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    Begun T Ye By Hem T More The T Now O Mid...

    great clothing " Facto , work ry System of the , " present which form day s . so It striking had caused not a feature its been in quite the

    unknown in Mr . Loinbe before ' s Silk ; a simil Work ar s at reason Derb having but it was first introduced adoption into the Cotton Manufacture in 1785 y , , Arkwright himself

    beingone of the earliest " Mill" owners . fraug The ht ch at ange first , however with many necessary evils , and , was ten ? of it years the must after be admitted its around intro- _,,

    duction , Dr . Aikin _, in his description country inj Man ured chester , and , speak girls s learning of it as the nothing cause of of household children ' s emp health loyments being * families of labourers in

    or management , so that comparing the husbandry and of those engaged in manufactories cleanliness , — "In and the

    their comfort former , " ; in says be the nearl he latter , " we double , with meet to filth with those , rags neatness of , the and husbandman , poverty , alth . " , ough wages y and however the

    However great the worker ' s money gain a quantity nation of this work would performed have been mig but ht advance poor compensation our importance had all as

    woman clear the System misery -si ' , s , hted been clothing which than a necessary work at som first e from who attended result the have home of since the transferrin to introduction treated the factory g on the it of ; this but scene , the more earl Mill of y

    for writer and these added on g grievances the to his subject painful hav did e descri been not p look tion adopted the on such rem in ark m e any vil , that s as factories " , inevitabl Remedies with e ,

    true benevolence and . much success . " Yet while all depended upon the emp the loyed character was of very the ill individual secured b , emp and loyer unexposed , islative the welfare to any of

    tions authorized an amoun inspection t of , unrestrained was thrown y into any the leg hands of regula men - . who had , often themselves power risen but recently from the rougher ,

    classesand whose souls had not got beyond , the vulgar desire to som to oppress obtain e instances , the wealth weak a fearful by and any tyrannize temp possible tation over , means onl the y too , hel which full pless y . y proved ielded Much to in of ,

    b the the work small that and was nimble required fingers in factories of a child could , and be accomp to meet lished this of dem y distant and , pauper counties children and thus were cut imported off from from , all , parental the workhouses care or

    protection , were committed , to , harsh overseers , who were only possibl intent on be obtaining forced from * as them large an No amount consideration of work was as shewn could

    for tender y infanor weak womanhood . but young and old , fe at ebl work e and regularl strong y cy , indiscriminatel from six in the y , morning were in , many till seven instances at ni kept g the ht ,

    and often for sixteen hours or more per diem with but

    Machines, Factokies, And Factory Acts. 3...

    MACHINES , FACTOKIES , AND FACTORY ACTS . 333

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/45/