Karl Marx writing a generation ago saw this most clearly.

"But as regards labour in the so- called domestic industries, and the intermediate forms between this and manufacture, so soon as limits are put to the working day and to the employment of children, these industries go to the wall.

Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour power is the sole foundation of their power to compete."[28] The effectiveness of the existing Factory Act, so far as relates to small workshops, is impaired by the following considerations-- 1.

The difficulty in finding small workshops.

There is no effectual registration of workshops, and the number of inspectors is inadequate to the elaborate and tedious method of search imposed by the present system.
2.