. Labor problems and labor legislation . R1VETER AT WORK. The great speed demanded by some occupations is a strainthat can be counteracted by short hours. [47]. CYCLE of theWORKING DAY Eight hours for work! Eight hours for sleep! Eight hours for home and citizenship! HOURS ably treated, overworked, and given no chancefor education. An act, passed by the EnglishParliament in 1802, among other provisions,limited their hours to twelve a day. Inadequateas this standard now seems, it marks the be-ginning of the long line of special laws limit-ing the hours during which young workers maybe employed.
. Labor problems and labor legislation . R1VETER AT WORK. The great speed demanded by some occupations is a strainthat can be counteracted by short hours. [47]. CYCLE of theWORKING DAY Eight hours for work! Eight hours for sleep! Eight hours for home and citizenship! HOURS ably treated, overworked, and given no chancefor education. An act, passed by the EnglishParliament in 1802, among other provisions,limited their hours to twelve a day. Inadequateas this standard now seems, it marks the be-ginning of the long line of special laws limit-ing the hours during which young workers maybe employed. The first such law in the United States waspassed by Massachusetts in 1842, and establisheda ten-hour day for all children under twelveworking in factories. Along with forbidding allwork for wages by children under a certain age,provisions restricting the hours of the youngestworkers have been developed, until to-day thereis general agreement that legislation, at the veryleast, besides keeping children under fourteenout of the factory and in the school-room, shouldprevent night work by all boys and girls undersixteen and limit their working hours to eig
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