The factory & workshop acts, 1878 to 1891: with introduction, copious notes, and an elaborate index / by Alexander Redgrave and Jasper A. Redgrave.

  • Redgrave Jasper A.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The factory & workshop acts, 1878 to 1891: with introduction, copious notes, and an elaborate index / by Alexander Redgrave and Jasper A. Redgrave. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    But the Act exempts from tile regulations in respect to Domestic Workshops, and leaves altogether free- from this Act certain occupations of a light character when carried on in a^ dwelling-house by the family dwelling therein, viz.:— Straw-plait Makinc(, Pillow-lace Making, Glove Making, and others of a like nature to which the Secretary of State may extend the exemption. It also exempts from the regulations as to hours of labour and meals, Flax Scutch Mills in which women only are employed intermittently, and for not more than six months in the year. It also exempts any handicraft which is exercised in a dwelling-house by the family dwelhng there, at irre- gular intervals, and does not furnish the whole or principal means of living to the family. As a ready means of ascertaining the precise regula- tions affecting each description of work, whether Textile Factory, Non-Textile Factory or Workshop, I annex a tabular analysis of the variations of the provisions which are applicable to each of these three classes of works. The alterations made by the Acts subsequent to the Act of 1878, have been included in the following statement:—