Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . thewhole industry was killed by Northern competition. The beck-side masters, finding it difficult to get labour, used apprenticesmore and more. They took children from the workhouses; anexcellent plan for the masters, who got labour cheap, and for theparish authorities, who got rid of pauper children—excellent, inshort, for everyone but the wretched apprentices set to work inlow, unhealthy, ill-ventilated ro
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . thewhole industry was killed by Northern competition. The beck-side masters, finding it difficult to get labour, used apprenticesmore and more. They took children from the workhouses; anexcellent plan for the masters, who got labour cheap, and for theparish authorities, who got rid of pauper children—excellent, inshort, for everyone but the wretched apprentices set to work inlow, unhealthy, ill-ventilated rooms, badly housed, either in themill or in adjacent barns, imderfed, overworked, often half-deformed by undue strain on inunature frames, stifled withdust, bad air, and fumes of oil. Apprenticeship is a hardsystem at any time; one safeguard is that parents are INDUSTRY TRANSFORMED. 821 1815] generally one party to the bond. But when Bumble tookthe place of the parent, then the apprentice Avas likely tofind himself between the upper and nether millstone. Itstands to the honour of a manufacturer, Sir Robert Peel, thathe was the first to call in the law to the aid of the
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