Tag: the industrial age and change of life of people

Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) was a prominent reformer who led the commission investigating the employment of women and children in mines.

The 1833 Factory Act was significant because it appointed four paid inspectors to ensure the new regulations were actually being followed.

The 1842 Mines Act prohibited the employment of all women and girls, as well as boys under the age of ten, in underground mine work.

The 1847 Factory Act is famously known as the Ten-Hour Act because it limited the working hours of women and young people in textile factories to ten hours per day.

The 1844 Factory Act was the first to mandate that dangerous machinery must be fenced or guarded to prevent accidents to workers.

Cholera first arrived in England in 1831, spreading from the port of Sunderland. This outbreak marked the beginning of several major cholera epidemics in the 19th century.

The 1867 Factory Extension Act expanded the scope of factory legislation to include smaller workshops, specifically those employing 50 or more workers.

The 1850 Factory Act (often referred to as the Ten Hours Act amendment) established the legal working day for women and young persons as 6 am to 6 pm.

Poor nutrition, disease, lack of sanitation, and harmful medical care in these urban areas had a devastating effect on the average life expectancy of British people in the first half of the 19th century. The Registrar General reported in 1841 that the average life expectancy for labourers in urban areas were 15 in Liverpool, 19 in Leeds, 39 in Rutland and 17 in Manchester. Hence, Option A is correct. In rural areas of England it  was 40 years of age but was only 35 in London and an alarming 25 in Haley. Since the rest of the figures correspond to rural population, and not urban labourers, hence, these are incorrect. 

The 1847 Factory Act, also known as the Ten Hours Act, limited the working hours for women and young persons aged 14 to 18 to 10 hours per day.