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FACTORY ACTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 122 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FACTORY ACTS , the name given generally to a

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SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of acts constituting one of the most important chapters in the

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HISTORY

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ENGLISH

English labour legislation (see LABOUR LEGISLATION); the

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TERM

term " factory " itself being

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SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short for manufactory, a

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BUILDING

building or collection of buildings in which men or

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WOMEN

women are employed in

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INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

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