Labour in the Longest Reign 1837 1897
Labour in the Longest Reign 1837 1897
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Many people are misled into an op- timistic complacency on this point from too exclusive consideration of the textile in- 1 See An Earnest Address and Urgent Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the oppressed and suffering pitmen of the Counties of Northum- berland and Durham. (W. Scott, Newcastle, 1831. ) LONGEST REIGN 39 dustries, in which the hours of labour have, by the operation of law, been successfully reduced by at least 20 per cent, since 1830. But the beneficent protection of... the Fac- tory Acts, especially in the matter of hours, has hitherto been withheld from other workers, and the shortening of the working day has been by no means uni- versal. I have, for instance, no statistics of the hours of railway servants in 1837, but I cannot believe that the directors in that year succeeded in getting any more out of the men they employed than did the directors of, say, the North British Railway Company, in 1889. I have else- where given particulars of many cases of men being regularly kept on duty for fifteen hours a day, 1 whilst instances of sixteen or twenty hours' work at a stretch are even now not uncommon.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Many people are misled into an op- timistic complacency on this point from too exclusive consideration of the textile in- 1 See An Earnest Address and Urgent Appeal to the People of England, on behalf of the oppressed and suffering pitmen of the Counties of Northum- berland and Durham. (W. Scott, Newcastle, 1831. ) LONGEST REIGN 39 dustries, in which the hours of labour have, by the operation of law, been successfully reduced by at least 20 per cent, since 1830. But the beneficent protection of... the Fac- tory Acts, especially in the matter of hours, has hitherto been withheld from other workers, and the shortening of the working day has been by no means uni- versal. I have, for instance, no statistics of the hours of railway servants in 1837, but I cannot believe that the directors in that year succeeded in getting any more out of the men they employed than did the directors of, say, the North British Railway Company, in 1889. I have else- where given particulars of many cases of men being regularly kept on duty for fifteen hours a day, 1 whilst instances of sixteen or twenty hours' work at a stretch are even now not uncommon.
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