Coton

1° Documents officiels.

Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee to whom the Pétitions presenled to the House in this Session relating to Ad 39 and àO Geo. 3, « for settling disputes between Masters and Worknien engaged in the Cotton Manufacture » ivere referred, 1802-3.

Report from the Select Committee appointed to consider of the most speedy and effectuai mode of adjusting such différences as may arise between Masters and Workmen engaged in the Cotton Manufacture ..., 1803-4,

Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee to whom the Pétition of Journeymen Calico Printers in the counties of Leicester, Derby, Chester, and Stafford, in England, and in the counties of Lanark, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Stirling and Perth, in Scotland, was referred, 1803-4.

Report from the Select Committee to whom it ivas referred to examine into the matter of the Minute^ of Evidence taken before the foregoing Committee, 1806.

Report from the Committee on Pétitions of several Cotton Manufactarers and Journeymen Cotton Weavers, together with the Minutes of Evidence ..., 1808.

Report on the Cotton Weavers' Pétition, 1809.

Report from the Committee on Dr. Carlwright's Pétition respecling his Wrainiig

Machine, together with the Minutes of Evidence ..., 1808. Report from the Select Committee to lohom the Pétition of Richard Ainsworlh, of

Bolton {Lancaster], Cotton Manufacturer, and thaï of Journeymen Cotton Weavers

résident in England, were severally referred, 1808.

Report from the Select Committee to tohom the Pétition of several Journeymen Cotton Weavers résident in England, that of the Coilon Manujncturers and Operative Weavers in Scotland, and the foregoing Report were severally referred,

Report from the Select Committee to whom the Pétition of Manufactarers and Artizans in Mancfiester, thaï of Weavers and Spinners of Coilon, Ilandicrafts, Artists and Labourers, résident in Bolton [Lancaster); those ofpersons residing

in Paisley, and of Heritors, Manufacturer s, Merchants, Méchantes, and Labourers résident in Lancaster, Ayr and Renfrewshire were referred, 1810-11.

Les publications suivantes, traitant de la législation des fabriques, concernent exclusivement, pour la période qui nous occupe, les fabriques de coton :

Report ofthe Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Commitlee on the State of the Children employed in the manufaclories ofthe United Kingdom, 1816.

Report from the Select Committee to ivhom the Bill to regulate the Labour of Children in Mills and Factorics ofthe United Kingdom ivere referred, 1831-32.

First Report ofthe Central Board of His Majestys Commissioners appointed to collect information in the manufactaring districts, relative to the Employment of Children in Factories and as to the propriety and means of cartailing the hours of their labour, wilh Minutes of Evidence and Reports of District Commissioners, 1833.

2° Monographies :

Kennedy (John). Observations on the Rise and Progress ofthe Cotton Trade in Great Britain .... (ap. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 2d séries, vol. III, 1819).

GuEST (Richard). A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture; ivith a disproval of the daim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingénions machinery, 1823.

Radcliffe (William). Origin of the neio System of manufacture, commonly called (( Power loom weaving » and the purposes for which tliis System was invented and brought into use,fully explained in a narrative, containing William Radcliffe's struggle through life to remove the cause ichich has brought this counlry to its présent crisis, loritten by himself, 1828.

Gaskell (P.). The Manufacturing Population of England .,.., 1833.

— . Artisans and Machinery : the moral and physical condition of the manufacturing population considered with référence to mechanical substitutes for human labour, 1836.

2° édition, développée, de l'ouvrage précédent. Traité exclusivement de l'industrie cotonnière.

Baines (Edward). History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain .... (1835).

Baines (Edward). History ofthe County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster , 4 vol.,

Ure (A.). The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain systematically investigated,

Schulze-Gaevernitz (G. von). Der Grossbetrieb, ein ivissenschaftlicher und socialer Fortschritt, 1892 (trad. fr., 1896). Il n'est question, dans cet ouvrage, que de l'industrie cotonnière.

Plus, deux ouvrages sur l'histoire de la législation des fabriques : Plener (Ernst Edler von). Die englische Fabrikgesetzgebung (trad. angl. 1873). HuTCHiNS (B. L.) and Harrisson (A.). A History of Factory Législation, with a

préface by Sidney Webb, 1903.

Et, sur la condition des ouvriers, l'important travail statistique de

WooD (G. W.). History of Wages in Ihe Cotion Trade during the pasl hundred years, 1910.

Fait partie d'un travail d'ensemble sur le mouvement des salaires dans l'industrie anglaise au xix" siècle, paru dans le Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.

Voir enfin, pour des détails abondants et vivants sur l'industrie du coton au Lancashire, patrons, ouvriers, législation des fabriques, le beau livre de

OwEN (Robert). The life of — , wrilten by himself, with sélections from his writings and correspondence, vol. I (le seul paru), 1857.