INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

industrial school, in england a school, generally established by voluntary contributions, for the industrial training of children, in which children are lodged, clothed and fed, as well as taught. industrial schools are chiefly for vagrant and neglected children and children not convicted of theft. such schools are for children up to the age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen. they are regulated by the children act 1908, which repealed the industrial schools act 1866, as amended by acts of 1872, 1891 and 1901, and parallel legislation in the various elementary education acts, besides some few local acts. the home secretary exercises powers of supervision, &c. see juvenile offenders. industry (lat. _industria_, from _indu_-, a form of the preposition _in_, and either _stare_, to stand, or _struere_, to pile up), the quality of steady application to work, diligence; hence employment in some particular form of productive work, especially of manufacture; or a particular class of productive work itself, a trade or manufacture. see