A 1908 magazine article by A. J. McKelway arguing against child labor, focusing on Southern U.S. cotton mills. It traces the history of child labor from eighteenth-century England and the British factory acts, and cites British physical-degeneration evidence after the Boer War. It then uses census figures to show high illiteracy among mill children, discusses the effect on family life, and reviews child labor laws state by state in the South. It has no weaving content; it is background on labor conditions in the textile industry.

An early twentieth-century address by A. J. McKelway of the National Child Labor Committee on child labor in the Southern cotton mill industry. It traces the problem from Eli Whitney's cotton gin and English and New England mills to the growth of Southern manufacturing, compares state age limits and legislation, and reports on weak enforcement, illiteracy, and school attendance in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. It argues that child labor is a national rather than sectional evil and appeals for reform by both North and South.

National Child Labor Committee Pamphlet No. 92 reports investigations of child labor in North and South Carolina cotton mills, carried out in 1908 by photographer Lewis W. Hine and investigators Rev. A. E. Seddon and A. H. Ulm. The text covers mill by mill findings on children's ages, night shifts, wages, illiteracy and mill schools, and summarizes the state child labor laws and their lack of enforcement. Twenty-six numbered plates, mostly Hine's photographs of child workers in spinning rooms and outside mills, are reproduced with captions.

An address by A. J. McKelway of the National Child Labor Committee arguing against the employment of young children in Southern cotton mills. It opens with an account of a train carrying Tennessee mountain families to South Carolina mills, then reviews the history of child factory labor in Manchester and New England. It also covers the growth of Southern cotton manufacturing, with spindle counts, mill numbers and workforce figures, and the economic, health, educational and moral case for child labor legislation.