Cotton Manufacture and Allied Industries
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A chapter from the 1906 industrial encyclopedia Workers of the Nation, surveying the American cotton industry around 1900. It covers the business of cotton mills in New England and the South, the Northrup automatic loom and other mill machinery, skilled operatives and child labor, cotton ginning and baling systems, and cotton seed products. It is economic and social history of factory production, not hand weaving.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1906
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 10
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