<Li> Set the minimum working age to 9 </Li> <Li> Set the maximum working hours to 12 per day </Li> <P> Michael Sadler was one of the pioneers in addressing the living and working conditions of the industrial workers . In 1832, he led a parliamentary investigation of the conditions of the textile workers . The Ashley Commission was another investigation committee that studied the plight of the mine workers . What came out of the investigation was that with increased productivity the number of working hours of the wage workers also doubled in many cases . The efforts of Michael Sadler and the Ashley Commission resulted in the passage of the 1833 act which limited the number of work hours for women and children and money babies . This bill made children from ages 9 to 18 not to work more than 48 hours a week, and spend two hours at school during work hours . The Act also created the factory inspector and provided for routine inspections of factories . This guaranteed that factories will follow laws of the reforms . </P> <P> According to a cotton manufacturer, "We have never worked more than seventy - one hours a week before Sir John Hobhouse's Act was passed . We then came down to sixty - nine; and since Lord Althorp's Act was passed, in 1833, we have reduced the time of adults to sixty - seven and a half hours a week, and that of children under thirteen years of age to forty - eight hours in the week, though to do this latter has, I must admit, subjected us to much inconvenience, but the elder hands to more, inasmuch as the relief given to the child is in some measure imposed on the adult ." </P>

Social changes in england during the industrial revolution