FACTORIES

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[Female and child labour in Victorian factories; printed pamphlet.] Factory Acts Amendment Bill. Speeches of Professor Fawcett, M.P., and Sir Thomas Bazley, M.P., on the Adjourned Debate, on Wednesday, July 30, 1873.

Author: 
Professor Fawcett, M.P. [Henry Fawcett], and Sir Thomas Bazley, M.P. [Millicent Garrett Fawcett; Factory Acts Amendment Bill, 1873]
Publication details: 
London: Macmillan and Co. 1873. [London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers.]
£150.00

40pp., 8vo. In fair condition, aged and worn, no wraps, disbound. On pp.36-40: 'Letter to the Editor of The Times, from Mrs. Fawcett', signed at end 'Millicent Garrett Fawcett. | June 7.'

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[Printed report, 1906.] Report on Safe-Guards for the Prevention of Accidents in the Manufacture of Cotton. By H. S. Richmond, One of His Majesty's Superintending Inspectors of Factories. Presented to both Houses of Parliament. [With 28 plates.]

Author: 
H. S. Richmond [British parliamentary report into the prevention of accidents in cotton mills, 1906]
Publication details: 
London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Darling & Son, Ltd, London. 1906.
£75.00

Folio, 22 pp, followed by 28 full-page plates of equipment designed to increase safety in the mills. Stitched. In original blue printed wraps. Text and plates clear and complete. Internally good, on aged paper. Wraps worn and chipped. Wraps with stamp and withdrawn stamp of University of Hull. No copy on COPAC or WorldCat.

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Handbill resolution.

Author: 
Arthur Nicholson, Chairman of Meeting of Silk Manufacturers and Representatives, Leek, Staffordshire
Publication details: 
1902; 'THOMAS GRACE, PRINTER AND STATIONER, LEEK.'
£25.00

One page. Roughly 13 inches by 8 inches. In good condition, although slightly discoloured, creased from folding and with one very small closed tear. Reports the resolution of a meeting held at the Town Hall in Leek on 30 December 1901, that beginning on 1 January 1902 'the operatives shall give up the five minutes grace now allowed on entering Mills at 6.30 and after dinner'. Also states the working hours for week-days and Saturdays.

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