Legal Provision Respecting the Education and Employment of Children in Factories, &c: With Examples of Improvement in Manufacturing Districts. Education and Labor, Or, The Influence of Education on the Quality and Value of Labor, and Its Connection with Insanity and CrimeCase, Tiffany & Burnham, 1842 - 88 Seiten |
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amongst apprentices best educated better education Cantons of Switzerland Chamber of Peers character Charles Dupin child children employed children in factories committee Common School education condition Connecticut cotton cotton mills cultivation departments duty educated workmen eight employed in factories employer EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN engaged England English workmen evils families females France habits hours a day human ignorant improvement industry instruction intel intellectual intelligence interrogatory labor large number less machinery manufacturing districts manufacturing establishments Massachusetts master mechanics ment mental mills mind Minister moral Mulhausen nature night nine observed obtained operatives owners parents physical ployed Poor Law Commissioners primary schools principle prisoners produce proprietors read and write read or write regulations Report require respect Saxons Scotch Scotland SECT secured Sir Robert Peel Sunday Sunday school superintendence superior thalers tion town twelve hours uneducated wages week work-people young persons
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - The manufacturing population of this city is the healthiest portion of the population, and there is no reason why this should not be the case. They are but little exposed to many of the strongest and most prolific causes of disease, and very many of the circumstances which surround and act upon them are of the most favorable* hygienic character.
Seite 13 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Seite 5 - ... more ready to comply with the wholesome and necessary regulations of an establishment. And in times of agitation, on account of some change in regulations or wages, I have always looked to the most intelligent, best educated, and the most moral for support, and have seldom been disappointed.
Seite 13 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Seite 2 - That the rudiments of a common school education are essential to the attainment of skill and expertness as laborers, or to consideration and respect in the civil and social relations of life. "2. That very few, who have not enjoyed the advantages of a common-school education, ever rise above the lowest class of operatives...
Seite 13 - It is a fact of universal notoriety, that the manufacturing population of England, as a class, work for half, or less than half, the wages of our own. The cost of machinery there also is but about half as much as the cost of the same articles with us ; while our capital, when loaned, produces nearly double the rate of English interest. Yet, against these grand adverse circumstances, our manufacturers, with a small percentage of tariff, successfully compete with English capitalists in many branches...