Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture.

  • Board of guardians
Date:
1843
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Credit: Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vlll CONTENTS. Effect on he«lth-gene»lly deemed beneficial .... JS Exceptional opinion of the Rev. Mr. Howmau. . . . . 216 Clmracteroftheworkinpointoflaboriousnesgandattractiveless .' .' 216 Wages ..... *******•••••• 21G Hours of work . . , 217 Effect on manners and conduct . . . Wet ' 217 . 217 Ages at which children begin to work 2J7 Interference of early employment with school instruction . . 217 Sunday schools • 220 Pauper apprenticeship .... Allotment system . . J •*•<■•... 220 Gang system Its advantages. . ... -20 ° % 223 Its disadvantages. _ b 004 Remedy ' • 223 Practice of giving lower wages to single than to married men. ... 226 Documents appended to Mr. Denison's Report 227-280 Evidence relatinn- to Suffolk . b 227 ,, to Norfolk ,, to Lincolnshire .... „-, 2ol }) to the effects of the allotment system .... 259 ,, to the best mode of putting the allotment svstem into practice . . og2 Practice adopted in different parts of Suffolk . . . o6o j, in the parish of Walsham-le-Willows . 263 ,, in different parts of Norfolk . . . 057 ,, in different parts of Lincolnshire . . . 07] j, at Morton and Hanthorpe .... 072 >i at Spalding 9-g Evidence relating to the gang-system as practised at Castle Acre, Norfolk 274 Opinions of neighbouring farmers and clergy respecting it ... 277 Report on the counties of Yorkshire and Northumberland, by Sir Fhancis Hastings Doyle, Bart „„, .„ Loca.ily in which his inquiries were made—Yorkshire and Northum- berland .... * 281 Subjects of inquiry 7^ Yorkshire 281 General remarks 011 the earnings of the women . . . nog Statements as to the sorts of work, the wages, the hours of work, the physical and moral effects of the work, and the diet, of the women 284