In the General Election of 1874, the Liberal Party was defeated, but Mundella continued his radical parliamentary campaigns from the opposition backbenches and reintroduced his Nine-Hours Bill. The Conservative government, reaping the fruits of Mundella's three years' hard work on his Bill, introduced their own Factory Bill which was designed to achieve much the same aims. The subsequent Factories (Health of Women, &c.) Act of 1875 established a ten-hour day for women and children in textile factories. It was widely recognised in the textile districts that it was Mundella's efforts which had secured its passing.