Boy Labour and Apprenticeship

A true apprenticeship system, as already explained, must satisfy three conditions: It must guarantee the adequate supervision of the youth of the country as regards physical and...

In the present chapter we must endeavour to find some remedy for the evils disclosed in the preceding pages. The old apprenticeship system has broken up, and there is nothing co...

The age of reconstruction is not complete, and for the moment we are left with the products of sentiment as revealed in the tangled and piecemeal legislation respecting boy labo...

Prior to the nineteenth century and the beginning of factory legislation the conditions of boy labour were determined in and through the industrial organization of the times. Of...

The last chapter closed on the darkest scene in the long history of child labour in this country. Of the three factors essential to a true apprenticeship, not one was found or i...

Originally the term "apprenticeship" was employed to signify not merely the practical training in the mysteries of a trade, but also that wider training of character and intelli...

I. The Contribution of the State 76 Sec. 1. State Regulation 76 Sec. 2. State Enterprise 83 Sec. 3. Summary 88 II. The Contribution of Philanthropy 89 III. The Contribution of t...

I. Supervision 191 (_a_) The Raising of the School Age 192 (_b_) The Prohibition of Child Labour 195 (_c_) The New Half-Time System 197 (_d_) The Parents' Point of View 202 II....

I. State Supervision 36 Sec. 1. State Regulation 37 (_a_) Prohibition of Employment 41 (_b_) Limitation of Hours 43 (_c_) Protection of Health 52 Sec. 2. State Enterprise 59 II....