-campaign against child labour culminated in two important pieces of legislation – the Factory Act (1833) and the Mines Act (1842)

Factory Act prohibited the employment of children younger than nine years of age and limited the hours that children between nine and 13 could work

Mines Act raised the starting age of colliery workers to 10 years

these two Acts brought the industrial districts into line with the rest of the country and brought an end to the systematic employment of young children op