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22.01.2022 HOLDEN DESIGNERS: MODEL 48-215: 1945/6 Australian Clay Modellers work on the very first Holden: The 48-215. (Commonly known as the FX, although this was NEVER an official title) The car began as a Chevrolet design considered too small for the US market. The refashioned car was launched with much fanfare in Australia in 1948. ... (GM Archives)

04.01.2022 CHILD LABOUR: TEXTILE INDUSTRY (UK) LATE 19th CENTURY. The British Industrial Revolution of the mid 18th Century saw the growth of Industrial (factory) Towns,... and lead to the mass migration of workers from surrounding rural areas to work in the factories. Village industries almost disappeared and agricultural vocations diminished as the wheels of machinery ground on, becoming increasingly more efficient, more mechanised. Child labour was a fact of life long before the Industrial Revolution: working class children had always worked to support their families - but this grew exponentially with the factories. In the cotton mills of Lancashire, an 8 year old might start as a scavenger, crawling beneath working machinery to clear away dust and dirt which might damage the machinery - and gather cotton waste. Crawling among the moving parts was dangerous; accidents and fatalities were not uncommon as an apron or hunk of hair was caught in the machinery. Older children might become piecers, working at spinning machines repairing breaks in the thread. BUT CHANGE WAS COMING... In 1833 the ‘Factory Act’ was passed which banned children under the age of 9 from working in textile factories and limited the hours older children could work. After this a series of laws gradually raised the minimum age for all child workers. An 1847 act limited women and children in the textile industry to a maximum 10 hour working day. Then in 1878 it became illegal to employ any child under the age of 10, in any industry. Alongside these laws, others were passed which increased the amount of education children should receive. The 1833 Factory Act required employers to provide 2 hours of schooling every day to all the children in their employ. It wasn’t until 1870 that the Forsters Education Act decreed that the state would take responsibility for education. Fees for elementary education were abolished in 1891 and from 1899 children were required to go to school until they were 12. This shot (1885) and those below are from the latter period described above, by which time conditions had improved significantly, although still a far cry from today. (photos. Amalgamate-safety)