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Excerpt from The Law Relating to Factories and Workshops: With Introduction and Explanatory Notes; Comprising the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and the Orders of the Secretary of State Made Thereunder Prior to the passing of the Factory and Workshop Act, 187 8, by the Factory Acts and the Workshop Acts were understood the laws which had been made, from time to time, for the purpose of regulating the employment of labour in the various branches of manufacturing industry. The former expression applied to the larger establishments known as factories, whilst the latter comprehended all those places where any handicraft work was carried on, on however small a scale, which did not come Within any of the definitions of a factory under the Factory Acts; these last-mentioned establishments being distinguished by the legislature by the term workshop (a). The expression The Factory Acts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.