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- Title
Factory Act Prosecutions: A Hidden Consensus?
- Authors
Peacock, A. E.
- Abstract
In this article the author replies to commentaries on the article "The Successful Prosecution of the Factory Acts, 1833-55." According to the author, the law and the new government factory inspectors were frustrated by a wilfully obstructive magistracy, either in sympathy with or drawn from the ranks of the textile manufacturers; this allegedly being evidenced in the problem of obtaining convictions in the courts of Petty Sessions. It is opined that the routes to such conclusions however, may be less common and may retain the source of some disagreement. In terms of methodology, writer P. W. J. Bartrip's concern is whether it is valid to construe cases withdrawn on payment of costs as de facto convictions. As originally stated, this category is concerned only with cases withdrawn on payment of costs by the defendant, such costs being in effect a mitigated penalty. The author opined that it is not difficult to agree with most of Bartrip's arguments as to how and why the inspectors were selective in the cases brought before the courts: that was not an issue in dispute.
- Subjects
FACTORY laws &; legislation; BARTRIP, P. W. J.; FINES (Penalties); PAYMENT; TEXTILE manufacturers; INDUSTRIAL laws &; legislation
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1985, Vol 38, Issue 3, p431
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2596998