Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Manpower and Wages Division: Registered Files: Agricultural Wages, Health and Housing (SLY Series)

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Details of MAF 228
Reference: MAF 228
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Manpower and Wages Division: Registered Files: Agricultural Wages, Health and Housing (SLY Series)
Description:

Papers of the various Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Divisions, dealing with matters of agricultural labour, welfare and health and safety

Subjects include the Gowers Committee on Health, Welfare and Safety in Non-industrial Employment (1949) and the Zuckerman Working Party on Precautionary Measures against Toxic Chemicals Used in Agriculture (1950-1955), the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act, 1952, and subordinate legislation. Agricultural wages (including policy matters in respect of the Agricultural Wages Board and enforcement of the board's orders), agricultural apprenticeship scheme, and agricultural housing (including tied cottages).

Includes some files re-registered from the AHB file series: MAF 234
Date: 1936-1959
Separated material:

Some earlier files in the SLY series are in MAF 47

From 1956, some SLY files covering health and safety matters were re-registered in the SW file series; see MAF 284
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SLY file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 90 file(s)
Accumulation dates: 1940 to 1956

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