Property News · July 25, 2016

Editorial: New report calls for better working conditions – archive, 25 July 1936


25 July 1936: The most interesting section of the report is concerned with the tendency to increase hours of workThe seamy side to industrial recovery is made plain in the annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories, which is published to-day. For while recovery means more employment and better wages, it also entails as an apparently natural consequence an increase of accidents in some factories and longer hours in others.The number of factory accidents rose to nearly 150,000 in 1935, as compared with 137,000 in 1934, although it is pointed out that some of the accidents, notably explosions, could have been prevented if proper precautions had been taken. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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