SECTION III. Government Regulation of Wages, Conditions of Employment,

GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF WAGES, CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, AND PUBLIC HEALTH

1. An Act against Truck, 1701 545

2. A Wages Assessment at a Warwickshire Quarter Sessions, 1738 546

3. Spitalfields Weavers Act, 1773 547

4. A Middlesex Wages Assessment under the Spitalfields Act, 1773 551

5. Agricultural Labourers' Proposals for a Sliding Scale of Wages, 1795 552

6. Debates on Whitbread's Minimum Wage Bill, 1795-6 554

7. Arbitration Act for the Cotton Industry, 1800 568

8. Amendment of the Arbitration Act, 1804 570

9. The First Factory Act, 1802 571

9 A. Minutes of Committee on Children in Factories 573

10. Calico Printers' Petition for Regulation, 1804 573

11. Report on Calico Printers' Petition, 1806 574

12. Cotton Weavers' Petition against the Repeal of 5 Elizabeth, c. 4, 1813 576

13. Debates on the Regulation of Apprentices, 1813-14 577

14. Resolutions of the Watchmakers on Apprenticeship, 1817 588

15. Report of the Committee on the Ribbon Weavers, 1818 590

16. The Cotton Factory Act of 1819 591

17. Oastler's First Letter on Yorkshire Slavery, 1830 592

18. Factory Act, 1833 594

19. Proposals for a Wages Board for Hand-Loom Weavers, 1834 596

20. Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1842 598

21. Debate on Factory Legislation, 1844 599

22. Factory Act, 1844 612

23. Recommendations of the Commission on the Health of Towns, 1845 614