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Far the best sources of information for the adoption of the factory laws, as for other nineteenth-century legislation, are the debates in Parliament and the various reports of Parliamentary Commissions, where access to them can be obtained. The early reports are enumerated in the bibliography in Cunningham's second volume. The later can be found in the appropriate articles in Palgrave's Dictionary. For recent legislation, the action of organizations, and social movements generally, the articles in Hazell's Annual, in its successive issues since 1885, are full, trustworthy, and valuable.