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1070 xvi. labour legislation and social statistics of sweden.
If the occupation of minors at a certain work is specially hard or dangerons
to health, their employment can be prohibited, or else allowed only under certain
conditions.
As to the law and the work-hours having to be set up in the locality of
work, as to responsibility for transgression, right to prosecution, and proper
court, the stipulations are the same as the corresponding ones in the law of
1881.
The law is, besides, applicable also when the trade is carried on by the State
or a community.
Women. The only special protective stipulation for grown-up women is
contained in the law of 1900, § 7, according to which a mother must not be
employed with industrial work during the four first weeks after child-birth, in
case it be not proved by medical certificate that she can begin the work earlier
without any harm — and that a woman must not work under ground in a mine
or a quarry.
Workers in general. As to the work-hours, the old stipulation about
Sunday and holy day work is still the only protection enacted by law. It is
nothing more than a prohibition against keeping a haberdasher’s shop open on
such days and a forbidding of every kind of work that can be put off and is not
carried out for one’s own or other people’s need, as also a setting down of a fine
for transgression.
Considering protection against danger from work, it has already been
mentioned that the ordinance of 1864 about liberty of trade contains certain
obligations for tradesmen duly to consider the health and capacity of their workmen.
The ordinance, moreover, stipulates — and that not only to the interest of the
workmen — that a factory where the fabrication necessitates chemical treatment
and where a faulty procedure may occasion danger of fire or of life and health,
only must be driven by a person who himself possesses a creditably certified
skill to manage such an establishment, or else can prove to have engaged another
person of testified insight in the trade for the purpose. Such stipulations, set
down also to the interest of the public, are besides to be found in the ordinance
of 1875 about inflammable oils, etc.; that of 1897 about explosives; of 1874
about the building, fitting out, and using of passenger steamers; of 1878 aboot
the knowledge compulsory for captains on Swedish merchant vessels; and of 1885
about measures for the avoidance of collision between ships. And as a resnlt of
the care about public health, may also be considered the stipulation in the Board
of Health ordinance of 1874, setting down that in localities — among these also
factories and workshops — where a great number of people generally assemble,
a sufficient ventilation must be kept up.
On the other hand, the stipulations concerning mining and the use of
phosphorus are set down particularly for the protection of the respective
workmen.
As to mining there are stipulations in the mining regulations of 1884 for
the preventing of accidents, and if a mining work involves special danger to the
workmen, the mineral-surveyor has to suspend it.
In 1870 an ordinance was issued about measures to be taken for the
prevention of necrosis amongst the workers at manufactories where common
phosphorus is used (matches, etc.); this ordinance was, however, replaced in 1896 by
a new one with more rigorous and detailed stipulations. In it is decreed that
the fabrication should take place in factories built for that purpose and not be
driven or managed by anybody but a competent person. Special rooms, shntoff
from the other workshops, are to be assigned for the preparation of the lighting
matter and the dipping of the matches in it, as also for the drying and packing
of matches. In each of these rooms, which, moreover, must exclusively be used for
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