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