Legal Provision Respecting the Education and Employment of Children in Factories, &c: With Examples of Improvement in Manufacturing Districts. Education and Labor, Or, The Influence of Education on the Quality and Value of Labor, and Its Connection with Insanity and CrimeCase, Tiffany & Burnham, 1842 - 88 ページ |
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1 ページ - Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth ; and whereas, many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind...
1 ページ - And further that all parents and masters do breed and bring up their children and apprentices in some honest, lawful calling, labor, or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not, nor can not, train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments...
49 ページ - The manufacturing population of this city is the healthiest portion of the population, and there is no reason why this should not be the case. They are but little exposed to many of the strongest and most prolific causes of disease, and very many of the circumstances which surround and act upon them are of the most favorable* hygienic character.
15 ページ - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
7 ページ - ... more ready to comply with the wholesome and necessary regulations of an establishment. And in times of agitation, on account of some change in regulations or wages, I have always looked to the most intelligent, best educated, and the most moral for support, and have seldom been disappointed.
1 ページ - ... have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices BO much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
15 ページ - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
4 ページ - That the rudiments of a common school education are essential to the attainment of skill and expertness as laborers, or to consideration and respect in the civil and social relations of life. "2. That very few, who have not enjoyed the advantages of a common-school education, ever rise above the lowest class of operatives...
15 ページ - It is a fact of universal notoriety, that the manufacturing population of England, as a class, work for half, or less than half, the wages of our own. The cost of machinery there also is but about half as much as the cost of the same articles with us ; while our capital, when loaned, produces nearly double the rate of English interest. Yet, against these grand adverse circumstances, our manufacturers, with a small percentage of tariff, successfully compete with English capitalists in many branches...
1 ページ - ... train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments : and if any of the selectmen, after admonition by them given to such masters of families shall find them still negligent of their duty, in the...