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"Tell me what shall thy wages be?"
Long before the beginnings of the modern factory system, and centuries before the idea of applying standard requirements for health, safety, or limitation of hours in factories and workshops had arisen, Parliament had recognised the need and right of the worker to receive full payment of the wages he had agreed to work for, in current coin of the realm-"in true and lawful money. "[46] It also recognised his right to spend those wages as and where it best suited him.