THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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Shortened workdays to 10 hours
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Women getting the right to vote
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Child labor being banned in factories
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Women getting paid more
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ashley-Cooper led the ‘Ten-Hour Movement’ aiming to reduce the working day for children under 16. Another Factory Act was passed in 1831, limiting the working day to 12 hours for all those under 18.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his pamphlet he argued that the 10-hour day was needed so that workers would have time to educate themselves and act as good citizens in the Republic. He also argued that workers were exploited by capitalists who paid them less in wages than the value that their work produced.
Detailed explanation-3: -The movement for shorter hours began almost with the formation of unions but met with great employer resistance. In Britain it was not until 1847 that an effective limit of 10 hours per day was placed upon the factory employment of women and children.
Detailed explanation-4: -One cause which united the LFLRA and other labor groups was the 10-hour movement, which advocated for passage of a legal regulation making it so corporations could only have their workers on the job a maximum of ten hours per day.