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The life of children in the mills of the Calder Valley ... In the Upper Calder valley, the Commission recorded people working 68 and 72 hours a week, with most of the mills employing children under 9 years of age.
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THERE are many contemporary accounts of the plight of poor working children, but time seems to lend weight to this one, by millworker-turned -journalist Allen Clarke in his 1899 book, The Effects of the Factory System.
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Women and Children of the Mills: An Annotated Guide to Nineteenth-Century American Textile Factory Literature; Ranta, Judith A.; ... This annotated bibliography of 19th-century literature by and about American textile factory workers examines 457 texts, including novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, narratives,
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Ineffective parliamentary acts to regulate the work of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day had been passed as early as 1802 and 1819. After radical agitation, notably in 1831, when "Short Time Committees" organized largely by Evangelicals began to demand a ten hour day,
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