ABSTRACT
The investigations of the Factories Inquiry Commission of 1833, though predominantly concerned with the textile industries, had in fact extended to other branches of industry. However, outside the textile factories, there was comparatively little industry carried on in factories. The textile industries, in which the conditions had been the most scandalous, were dealt with under the Factory Act of 1844, and the employment of children in calico print-works, under a Factory Act. The limited application of this Act gave rise to a movement to secure an extension to trades other than those of the textile industry. The operation of the Workshops Act of 1867, also, had disclosed several serious weaknesses in its provisions. Though the foregoing survey shows that the part-time system of education for children engaged in industry made but little real headway in other directions, the influence of the system did in fact extend far beyond the textile trades.
