Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Factory and Public Health Acts (1833–48)
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1833–1848 — Parliament passes the Factory Act (1833), the Mines Act (1842), the Ten Hours Act (1847) and the Public Health Act (1848): the first laws in the world to regulate industrial work and town sanitation.
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- Urbanisation and the Factory Acts (chapter 5 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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