The case of the journeymen bakers : being a lecture on the 'evils of nightwork and long hours of labour,' delivered July 6, 1848 / by William A. Guy.

  • Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The case of the journeymen bakers : being a lecture on the 'evils of nightwork and long hours of labour,' delivered July 6, 1848 / by William A. Guy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVEETISEMENT. This Lecture was deliyered in the year 1848, at the Mechanics’ Institution, Southampton Buildings, Lord Ashley, M.P., now the Earl of Shaftesbury, in the Chair; to whom, as well as to Lord Ebury, then Lord Eobert G-rosvenor, the Author desires to offer his tribute of grateful respect for the great services they have rendered to the cause of the Journeymen Bakers. The fact that the Lecture was given in the eventful year 1848, will explain some of the political allusions which it contains. The Lecture is reprinted without alteration. The Author sees no reason to correct the statements, or to modify the opinions expressed sixteen years ago. Both have been confirmed by further inquiry, experience, and refiection; and it is a source of abiding satisfaction to him that the legislation he advocated so long since has been brought to bear on the evils he was one of the first to expose; and that he has lived to see the making of bread changed to some extent from a handicraft to a mannfacture. This Lecture is the first of a series of “ Contributions to Sani- tary Science,” which the Author hopes to be able to publish. He believes that it vindicates its claim to be considered a scientific treatise by the accuracy and precision of its statements, and the scrupulous care with which the facts it contains were observed, arranged and classified. It has the essence witliout the form of a well considered statistical essay.