Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition article on cotton, covering the botany and classification of Gossypium species, cultivation, ginning, cotton seed products, pests such as the boll weevil, and seed selection. It also surveys world production by country, the cotton markets and trading methods at Liverpool and Manchester (futures, options, clearing house), yarn and cloth trade, and descriptions of cotton fabrics such as jean, jeanette and Oxford. Includes statistical tables and a few diagrams.

Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.) article on the economic and industrial history of cotton manufacture, covering its origins in Europe and England, the fustian trade of 17th-century Lancashire, and the organization of hand weaving, warping and the putting-out system. It treats the mechanical inventions (Arkwright's water-frame, the mule, Roberts's self-actor, Cartwright's power loom), the localization of spinning and weaving in Lancashire, labour and wages, and the industry's growth in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, China, Japan and elsewhere. Many statistical tables on operatives, spindles, looms and cotton consumption are included, and a bibliography closes the article.

An 1899 economic history article by S. J. Chapman on how wages in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry came to be regulated by printed price lists. It traces the origins of private and district lists from about 1810 through the 1830s, their decline, and their revival at Preston, Bolton and Oldham, and corrects the 1887 British Association report on the date of the first list. It compares the Oldham and Bolton lists, discusses speed lists, a universal list, piece rates, piecers' wages, and sliding scales.

An economic history article by S. J. Chapman on the policies of British cotton spinners' trade unions, aimed at keeping wages high. It traces the shift from apprenticeship restrictions modeled on the weavers' clubs to enforcing a fixed ratio of spinners (minders) to machinery, and discusses the position of piecers. It also covers employer countermeasures such as coupling of wheels, the doffing system, the apprenticeship system and the joining system, and the union responses, with footnotes citing parliamentary reports and union records.