In addition there are many short papers in the Manchester public library. Much valuable information may be obtained from parliamentary papers; a list of relevant ones is printed as an appendix to Chapman's _Lancashire Cotton Industry_, but it is too lengthy to repeat here. The most important are the reports relating to the hand-loom weavers, those on the employment of children 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_; Lochmüller, _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 the results of an investigation into the industry in the Southern states. Among official matter the semi-official Bombay and Lancashire cotton spinning inquiry of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce may be included. The census of production of the United Kingdom must be mentioned, and the reports of the International Congresses of Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers. As to labour, see the reports of the International Textile Congresses.