Parliament also passes the Factory Act of…

Parliament also passes the Factory Act of 1833, an attempt to establish a regular working day in the textile industry.

One of the provisions mandates that children ages fourteen to eighteen must not work more than twelve hours a day with an hour lunch break.

While the act prohibits children under eighteen from working at night, this enables employers to run two 'shifts' of child labor each working day in order to employ their adult male workers for longer.