Lord Shaftesbury Success criteria to identify the improvements
Lord Shaftesbury Success criteria: to identify the improvements made for working children
What was wrong with the working conditions for children? Worked long hours n Dangerous conditions n No education n Paid very little because they were younger n Worked from a very young age n Short breaks often with no fresh air n
Lord Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley Cooper was born in 1801 n He became the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1851 n At the age of 25, he became a member of Parliament. He began to take an interest in the plight of poor children after reading newspaper reports about labour in industry n
What could be done to improve working conditions? n Laws were set up
1833 Lord Ashley proposed that children should work for a maximum of 10 hours a day n This bill failed but the government realised that children needed to be protected n A year later the Factory Act was passed n
Factory Act It was now illegal for children under 9 to be employed in textile factories n Children between 9 and 13 were still allowed to work for up to 12 hours a day n Only 4 inspectors were employed to make sure this law was carried out. n This worried some people. Why? n
Coals Mine Act - 1842 This meant women and children were not allowed to work underground n Lord Shaftesbury continued his work for improved working hours for children in factories n
Other interests Lord Shaftesbury was also interested in education for working class children n He was chairman of the Ragged Schools Union - an organisation that had set up over a hundred schools for poor children n He died in 1885 n
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