Laws for the Welfare of Labourers: A Time line The government implemented the In 1891, laws were made in the first Factory Act in 1881 and made 1850 interest of women labourers to the following rules especially for ensure that: the welfare of working children: 1860 . Women labourers cannot be Children below the age of 7 made to work more than 11 cannot be employed in factories. 1870 hours a day. Children between 7 and 12 years Women labourers must be of age cannot be made to work 1880 given an hour and half break more than 9 hours a day and each day. they must be given a one-hour Children's working hours were 1890 break each day. They must also reduced from 9 to 7 hours/day be given 4 days leave each and factory employers were 1900 month. forbidden to employ children The largest number of labourers in 1910 below 9 years of age. industries was that of men. It wasn't until 1911 that laws for India and Pakistan get 19201 their welfare were made. According independence from Britain to the Factory Act of 1911: 1930 Why did the educated people of Adult male labourers could not India not pay much attention to 1940 be made to work for more than the interests of factory labourers in 12 hours every day the beginning?
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The early Acts concentrated on regulating the hours of work and moral welfare of young children employed in cotton mills but were effectively unenforced until the Act of 1833 established a professional Factory Inspectorate. The regulation of working hours was then extended to women by an Act of 1844. The Factories Act 1847 (known as the Ten Hour Act), together with Acts in 1850 and 1853 remedying defects in the 1847 Act, met a long-standing (and by 1847 well-organised) demand by the millworkers for a ten-hour day. The Factory Acts also sought to ameliorate the conditions under which mill-children worked with requirements on ventilation, sanitation, and guarding of machinery.
Introduction of the ten-hour day proved to have none of the dire consequences predicted by its opponents, and its apparent success effectively ended theoretical objections to the principle of factory legislation; from the 1860s onwards more industries were brought within the Factory Act