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Excerpt from The Rate of Wages in Manchester and Salford, and the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire, During the Twenty Years From 1839 to 1859: With Statistical Tables Illustrating the Progress of the Cotton Trade, the Population, Cost or Provisions, &C
The Rule in regard to apprentices, is as follows That no employer shall be permitted to have more than one apprentice at one time, except in cases when an apprentice is in the last year of his servitude, then such employer may have a second apprentice.
This rule, and the further restrictions of a similar kind, have had the effect of preventing many of the masters taking any apprentices.
The source for obtaining an increased supply of skilled labour in this trade is therefore to a great extent restricted and this fact has already given rise to serious apprehensions as to the possibility of being able to meet the increased demand for labour in the Building Trades, which the present prosperity of the manufacturing districts is now causing.
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