islation. A twelve-hour day, ten, nine, eight,
covering wider classes of workers and applied to a larger
number of industries, marks the line of movement. With each
advance the basis of protection is broadened, other
considerations of machine-fencing, sanitation, education,
etc., entering more largely into the Acts.

4. Increased effectiveness of legislation with growth of
centralised control. Local initiative and control proves
ineffective, yields to State inspection, the number of
inspectors growing, and their power increasing. Improvements
in the mechanism of central control, an increased number of
inspectors, working men and women inspectors, are the
distinguishing features of recent State protection of
labour.

LEADING POINTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FACTORY LEGISLATION.

-----+-------------------+--------------+------------------------+
| | Class of | |
| Industries | Workers | Nature of |
Date.| affected. | chiefly | Regulations. |
| | protected. | |
-----+-------------------+--------------+------------------------+
1802 | Cotton and 'other | Apprenticed | 12 Hours Day. |
| mills' (applied | Pauper | Night-work regulated. |
| exclusively to | Children. | Education, sanitation. |
| cotton). | | |
| | | |
1819}| Do. | Children | Prohibition of work |
1820}| Do. | (not | under 9 years. Young |
| | Paupers). | persons (under 16) a |
| | | 12 hour day. |
| | | Regulation for |
| | | meal-time. Amendment |
| | | of 1802 Act. |
| | | |
1825 | Do. | Do. | Shortened Saturday |
| | | labour. Penalties |
| | | provided for breach |
| | | of Factory |
| |