Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Factory Legislation in Pennsylvania: Its History and Administration
The first state to develop an effective factory code - as it had been the first to introduce the factory system of manu facture - was Massachusetts, with New York second. Penn sylvania was a close third, following the lead of New York rather than of Massachusetts in the method of enforcement. A comparison of the two methods would be of interest. But the time has not yet come for a comparative study of fac tory legislation in the United States, and will not have arrived until a detailed account shall be given us of the history and workings of the factory laws in a number of typical commonwealths, with a background view of the condition of affairs in certain southern states where the movement has hardly begun. Pennsylvania now ranks so high industrially and commercially, and its factory code is so well advanced and a strict enforcement so greatly needed, that it is time to take the backward glance, and then to examine critically the present status, in order to take new hope and a fresh start for the future.
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