Esempi dal corpus di testo per factory acts
1. Between 1850 and 1'50 there was a gradual erosion of free–market capitalism through a variety of policy reforms (factory acts, education bills, old–age pensions, social insurance, progressive taxation), and that culminated in Labour‘s postwar settlement.
2. Disraeli alludes to this in his novel Sybil, or The Two Nations, in 1845, grumbling that men "seldom exceed four days of labour in the week". It was not until a succession of Factory Acts gradually shortened Saturday working hours that Saint Mondays become redundant.