HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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required equal pay for men & women
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required 2 hours of schooling each day for children under age 13
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no children under the age of 9 could work in industry
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banned all forms of child labor
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Detailed explanation-1: -(i) Children below nine years of age will not be employed in factories. (ii) Working hour will be lessened from 16 to 12 hours. Provisions of Factory Act, 1833: (i) Children of age group between 13-17 years will not be forced to work for more than 10 hours.
Detailed explanation-2: -The act had the following provisions: Children (ages 9–12) are limited to 48 hours per week. Children under 9 were not allowed to be employed in factories, except in silk mills. Children under 18 must not work at night (i.e. after 8.30 p.m. and before 5.30 a.m.)
Detailed explanation-3: -Article 24 Prohibition of employment of children in factories, etc. No child below the age of 14 years shall be employed in work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Factory Act 1948 is more comprehensive than the previous act and focuses mainly on health, safety, welfare of the workers inside factories, working hours, minimum age to work, leave with pay etc. under Factory Act of Great Britain passed in the year 1937.
Detailed explanation-5: -1. This Act may be called “The Indian Factories Act, 1881.” It applies to the whole of British India, and shall come into force on the first day of July, 1881. any machine: a child who works in a factory, whether for wages “employed."