ren in factories (of which a list will
be found in Hutching and Harrison's _History of the Factory
Legislation_), and the state of trade and the annual reports of the
factory inspectors. On labour questions there is a list of authorities
in Chapman's _Lancashire Cotton Industry_ and also of parliamentary
papers containing useful material. Printed copies of the "Wages Lists"
are issued by the trade unions. The Factory Acts are dealt with in
Hutchins and Harrison's _History_, mentioned above, as well as the
literature relating to them; while the handbooks by Redgrave and by
Abraham and Davies are specially useful.

On the industry abroad the following are the fullest
authorities:--Besso, _The Cotton Industry in Switzerland, Vorarlberg
and Italy_ (1910) (a report made as a Gartside Scholar of the
University of Manchester); Chapman's _Cotton Industry and Trade_
(1905); Hammond, _The Cotton Industry_; Hasbach's article, "Zur
Characteristik der englischen Industrie," in _Schmollers Jahrbuch_,
vol. ii. (1903); Leconte, _Le Coton_; Lochmuller, _Zur Entwicklung der
Baumwollindustrie in Deutschland_ (1906); Montgomery, _The Cotton
Manufacture of the United States of America contrasted and compared
with that of Great Britain_ (1840); Oppel, _Die Baumwolle_ (1902);
Schulze-Gaevernitz, _Der Grossbetrieb: ein wirtschaftlicher und
socialer Fortschritt: eine Studie auf dem Gebiete der
Baumwollindustrie_ (1892; translated as _The Cotton Trade in England
and on the Continent_); T. M. Young, _American Cotton Industry_
(1902); Uttley, _Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing in the United
States of North America_ (1905; a report of a tour as Gartside scholar
of the university of Manchester); and the Gartside reports on the
cotton industries of France and Germany by Forrester and Dehn
respectively. Information will also be found in Diplomatic and
Consular Reports, and fragments may be gathered from other books such
as G. Drage's _Russian Affairs_, Dyer's _Dai Nippon_, and Huber's
_Deutschland als Industriestaat_. Japan has published since 1901 a
very full financial and economical annual, and the British government
issues annually a good statistical abstract for India. The American
census contains much detailed information, and there are, in addition
to the statistics issued by the Federal government, those of
Massachusetts, the Bureau of Statistics of which has also reported