Legislation
- Trade Disputes Act 1906 – Protected labour unions from frivolous legal claims, such as the subject of a strike claiming economic damages caused by the voluntary withholding of labour by workers, or the subject of a boycott claiming the union economically damaged them by encouraging people to voluntarily shop elsewhere.
- Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 – Granted compensation for injury at work.
- Merchant Shipping Act 1906
- Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906
- Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907 – created school medical inspections.
- Matrimonial Causes Act 1907
- Mines Act 1908 – Miners now worked 8-hour days.
- 1908 Children and Young Person's Act (Children's Charter)
- Old-Age Pensions Act 1908
- Labour Exchanges Act 1909
- Trade Boards Act 1909
- Housing and Town Planning Act 1909
- National Insurance Act 1911
- Shops Act 1911 – shop owners could now take half a day off work per week.
- Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912
From 1911 MPs were given a salary of £400 per annum, meaning that it was much easier for working-class people to stand for election.
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“The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, much legislation is moral legislation because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres of life.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.”
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