Reports of Commissioners on the Hours of Labor: Appointed Under Chapter 92 of the Resolves of 1866Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1867 - 141 ページ This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
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admitted adopted advance Alexander H Arthur Kinnaird average Boston capital caulkers census cent character Charlestown circumstances cities civilization commodities compelled condition connection consideration daily day's desire dollars duties East Boston eight hours elevated employed employers enactment England established extent fact factory farm farmers favor females fifty shillings give half-holiday hours of labor human increase influence inquiry institutions intellectual intelligent laboring classes large number legislation leisure less manual labor manufacturing Massachusetts masses mechanics ment Methley mills mind moral movement nature operatives persons physical pig iron points of inquiry portion practical present principle production profits proposed prosperity question railroads reason reduction of hours reform regard relation Report respect Sabbath sanitary seems seen Shaftsbury ships Sir George Grey social ten hours ten-hour system tion toil towns trades views wealth Whitwood workingmen workmen worth of puddling
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5 ページ - No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment within this State.
100 ページ - Hence the soul must remain great and strong, though it were only to devote its strength and greatness from time to time to the service of the body. If men were ever to content themselves with material objects, it is probable that they would lose by degrees the art of producing them; and they would enjoy them in the end, like the brutes, without discernment and without improvement.
34 ページ - March in each year, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the Commonwealth ; especially in its relations to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the Commonwealth.
71 ページ - ... extend the jurisdiction of reason and conscience. In a word, we must not add to the impulsive, without also adding to the regulating forces. If we maintain institutions, which bring us within the action of new and unheard-of powers, without taking any corresponding measures for the government of those powers, we shall perish by the very instruments prepared for our happiness.
13 ページ - The present system of labor is debasing the native New England stock and forcing them to emigrate to the west and foreign countries. The population which displaces them is inferior in every respect." It was argued that the last hour of an eleven-hour day was good for nothing, since more work was wasted, more material destroyed then than in any other hour of the day. It was further asserted that the employers...
54 ページ - ... subject, in different places. This circumstance, and the novelty of the subject in some of its aspects, and its importance in all, have led me to think, that we might pass an hour profitably, in its contemplation. I will observe upon it, in the first place, then, that if, as I have endeavored to show, man is by nature a working being, it would follow, that a working men's party is founded in the very principles of our nature.
56 ページ - March, the working hours will be from the rising to the setting of the sun". The bell will then be rung at one h'our after sunrise, that hour being allowed for breakfast. At 12 o'clock, noon, the bell will again be rung, and one hour allowed for dinner, from which hour, say I o'clock, till sundown, will constitute the last half of the day. No quarters of days will be allowed. Although this proclamation affected only the employees of the government, it was received with...
88 ページ - dog watches" may, perhaps, be of use to one who has never been at sea. They are to shift the watches each night, so that the same watch need not be on deck at the same hours. In order to effect this, the watch...
56 ページ - NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON, April 10, 1840. By direction of the President of the United States, "all public establishments will hereafter be regulated, as to working hours, by the ten-hour system.
71 ページ - If republican institutions do wake up unexampled energies in the whole mass of a people, and give them implements of unexampled power wherewith to work out their will ; then these same institutions ought also to confer upon that people unexampled wisdom and rectitude.