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In this second installment, we analyze the account contained in the 1909 and 1910 Reports of the Labor Inspection on the application of the 1900 Women and Children's Labor Law. We confirm that this account is an excellent source for the social history of law; that is, it offers us an explanation of the what and how of the application of that Act, not from the perspective of political elites, but rather by focusing on its recipients, the most vulnerable members of the subaltern class, women and children, at the beginning of the 20th century. Furthermore, the Inspectors' explanations are also an excellent source for the economic and social history of the Spanish state at that time. However, we confirm from the Inspectors' handwriting that the application of that Act was slow, even ten years after its enactment, and at the expense of the labor well-being of working women and children.
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