A 1909 article by Everett H. Lord on child labor in New England textile mills and Maine sardine canneries. It covers how children get around age limits, the lack of schooling and industrial training among young mill workers, and the near-absence of legal protection for children in Maine's canneries, including long hours, unguarded machinery and seasonal work. It is a social-reform text about the textile workforce and does not deal with weaving technique.

A 1909 article by Lewis W. Parker, a South Carolina cotton mill owner, defending conditions in southern cotton mills against critics. He argues that the character of mill workers is improving and that child labor is declining as adult workers prove more economical, citing other observers. He also describes manufacturers' support for compulsory school laws and for restrictions on night work by children in South Carolina. It is reprinted from a child labor debater's handbook.

A 1909 address by silk manufacturer Howell Cheney, reprinted in a 1911 debaters' handbook, arguing that textile mills, particularly silk mills, gain nothing from employing children under fifteen where work is continuous machine tending. He distinguishes work where restriction rather than prohibition is appropriate (doffers, bobbin boys, booth tenders), discusses opposition to an eight-hour day for fourteen to sixteen year olds, and examines parents' and schools' roles in sending children to work. He concludes that higher educational and physical qualifications and better industrial training in the schools are the real safeguards.