World of work
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- Created on: 06-05-15 17:32
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- The World of Work
- Unit 9
- 1857 - Sewing machine invented
- 1867 - Agricultural Gangs Act
- Banned employment of young girls
- Women to only work in all-women gangs under a female gang-master
- 1874 - Factory Act
- 1896 - Factory Act
- Minimum age = 11
- 1901 - Factory Act
- Minimum age = 12
- max. hours for women = 9
- Minimum age to work = 9
- max. hours for women and youth = 10
- 1896 - Factory Act
- 1874 - First typewriters sold in UK
- 1878 - Factory and Workshop Act
- Extends protection for women and young people in all industries
- 1879 - Introduction of the telephone
- 1888 - Bryant & May strike
- Annie Besant
- Women had formed a union - rare
- Strikes by women even rarer
- Women had formed a union - rare
- Phosphorus fumes in work place
- Mistreatment of women, easily fined
- Annie Besant
- 1909 - Trade Boards Act
- Settles rate of earnings in: box-making, lace-making, chain-making and tailoring
- 1919 - Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act
- Illegal to bar women from a job due to their gender
- Wasn't fully implemented in the civil service
- 1926 - 75% of local authorities restricted the employment of married women
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