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Factory And Workshop Act 1901
The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the conditions of industrial employment. 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 objectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baines 1835-Mule Spinning
Baines is a surname of English, Scottish or Welsh origin. It shares many of the same roots with the British surname Bains.Reaney, P.H. ''A Dictionary of British Surnames'' Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd edition (1976)Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. ''A Dictionary of Surnames'' Oxford University Press (1988) It shares some roots with the British surname Bain. Derivation and variants Baines has a number of different sources, several of them nicknames and another based on an occupation. In Scotland and the north of England the Old English word ''bān'' ('bone') became Middle English ''bān'' and ''bain''. It may have become a nickname in the plural, meaning 'bones' or ' ong-egs' (''cf.'' modern German ''Bein'', also meaning both "bone" and "leg"). The Middle English ''bayn'', ''beyn'' and the Old Norse ''beinn'' meant 'straight' or 'direct', which may have become a nickname. The Middle English ''bayne'' (and French ''bain'') meant 'bath'. This may have become an occupational surname for an at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
