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• Introduction to a history of the factory system (R. Bentley, 1988), by Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zhiznʹ i byt peterburgskoĭ fabriki za 210 let ee sushchestvovanii︠a︡, 1704-1914 g.g. (Izd. Leningradskogo gub. Soveta professionalʹnykh soi︠u︡zov, 1925), by P. N. Stolpi︠a︡nskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Die Arbeiterfrage: Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sozialpsychologischen Seite des Modernen Grossbetriebes und der Psycho-Physischen Einwirkungen auf die Arbeiter (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1912), by Adolf Levenstein
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• Factory Work As It Is and Might Be: A Series of Four Papers (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1922), by William Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loom and Spindle: or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls, with a Sketch of The Lowell Offering and Some of its Contributors (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1898), by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, contrib. by Carroll Davidson Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Factory people and their employers, how their relations are made pleasant and profitable; a handbook of practical methods of improving factory conditions and the relations of employer and employee. (Lentilhon & Co., 1900), by Edwin L. Shuey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French Revolution of 1848 in its economic aspect: vol. I, Louis Blanc's Organisation du travail, vol. II. Émile Thomas's Histoire des ateliers nationaux (The Clarendon Press, 1913), by J. A. R. Marriott, Emile Thomas, and Louis Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Grossbetrieb ein wirtschaftlicher und socialer Fortschritt. Eine Studie auf dem gebiete der Baumwollindustrie. (Duncker & Humblot, 1892), by G. von Schulze-Gaevernitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The factory (Houghton Mifflin, 1912), by Jonathan Thayer Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern factory system. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1891), by Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to a history of the factory system (R. Bentley & Son, 1886), by Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of the factory system. (G. Richards, 1899), by Allen Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkai︠a︡ fabrika v proshlom i nastoi︠a︡shchem : istoricheskoe razvitie russkoĭ fabriki v XIX veke (Kooperativnoe izd-vo "Moskovskiĭ rabochiĭ", 1922), by M. I. Tugan-Baranovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• The triumphant machine: (a study of machine civilisation) (Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928), by Richard Michael Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• La morale de la machine (Société française d'éditions littéraires et techniques, E. Malfère, 1929), by Alphonse Séché (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entwickelung der fabrikindustrie im lateinischen Amerika (Gebauer-Schwetschke, 1910), by Max Gemmingen (page images at HathiTrust)
• American factories and their female operatives; with an appeal on behalf of the British factory population and suggestions for the improvement of their condition. (W.D. Ticknor, 1845), by William Scoresby (page images at HathiTrust)
• American factories and their female operatives; with an appeal on behalf of the British factory population ... (Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845), by William Scoresby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The factory system and the factory acts (Methuen, 1894), by R. Whately Cooke-Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber maschinen in ihrem verhältnisse zu dem wohlstande der arbeitenden classen. (Wien, 1848), by F. D. Arago and Christian Friedrich Grieb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of Music Hall lectures : embracing five addresses on factory reform in the largest trade of the United States : delivered at Music Hall, Lynn, Mass., 1871 (W.H. Halliday, 1871), by Joseph Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of manufactures: or, An exposition of the scientific, moral, and commercial economy of the factory system of Great Britain. (H. G. Bohn, 1861), by Andrew Ure and P. L. Simmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early factory labor in New England : (from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor for 1883) (Wright & Potter Print. Co., 1889), by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Carroll D. Wright, and Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The factory system and the factory acts (Methuen, 1894), by Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply to the two letters of John Elliot Drinkwater, Esquire, and Alfred Power, Esquire, Factory Commissioners (F.E. Bingley, 1833), by Michael Thomas Sadler and Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the Employment of Children in Factories (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor's stake in the American way : production of value under the American system. (Atlantic Monthly Co., 1938), by Hartley W. Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address, delivered at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May 27, 1846 (The Society, 1846), by John O. Green, Massachusetts Medical Society. Annual Meeting (1846), and Massachusetts Medical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zhiznʹ i byt peterburgskoĭ fabriki za 210 let ee sushchestvovanii︠a︡, 1704-1914 g.g. (Izd. Leningradskogo gub. Soveta professionalʹnykh soi︠u︡zov, 1925), by P. N. Stolpi︠a︡nskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loom and spindle : or life among the early mill girls with a sketch of "the Lowell offering" and some of its contributors, by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, contrib. by Carroll D. Wright and Lucy Larcom (Gutenberg ebook)
• The factory, by Jonathan Thayer Lincoln (Gutenberg ebook)

• Humanity and labour in China; an industrial visit and its sequel (1923 to 1926) (Student Christian Movement, 1928), by Adelaide Mary Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The manufacturing population of England : its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour (Baldwin and Cradock, 1833), by P. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters (J. Putnam, 1847), by William Dodd and Caroline Sheridan Norton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fabrikbetrieb und heimarbeit in der deutschen konfektionsindustrie, eine darstellung der betriebsformen (F. Enke, 1912), by Erhard Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Curse of the Factory System: or, A Short Account of the Origin of Factory Cruelties; Of the Attempts to Protect the Children by Law; Of Their Present Sufferings; Our Duty Towards Them; Injustice of Mr. Thomson's Bill; The Folly of the Political Economists; A Warning Against Sending the Children of the South into the Factories of the North (London : A. Cobbett, ca. 1836), by John Fielden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, a Factory Cripple, Written by Himself (second edition; London: L. and G. Seeley, and Hatchard and Son, 1841), by William Dodd
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• Artisans and machinery : the moral and physical condition of the manufacturing population considered with reference to mechanical substitutes for human labour (J.W. Parker, 1836), by P. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the factory movement, from the year 1802, to the enactment of the ten hours' bill in 1847. (Simpkin, Marshall and co., 1857), by Sam Kydd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of manufactures : or, An exposition of the scientific, moral and commercial economy of the factory system of Great Britain (C. Knight, 1835), by Andrew Ure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Factories and the factory system; from Parliamentary documents and personal examination (J. How, 1844), by W. C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humanitarians and the ten hour movement in England. (Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1956), by Raymond Gibson Cowherd and Arthur Harrison Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laboring classes of England : especially those concerned in agriculture and manufactures ; in a series of letters (J. Putnam, 1848), by William Dodd and Caroline Sheridan Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the effect of the manufacturing system : with hints for the improvement of those parts of it which are most injurious to health and morals ... (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1817), by Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous publications. (Vauxhall, 1851), by Price's Patnet Candle Company and John Posthumus Parkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true alarm! : an essay, shewing the pernicious influence of houses of industry, on the political interests of this country. (Printed for Mess. Robinsons, [etc.], 1787), by R. Alderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The factory controversy; a warning against meddling legislation (Printed by A. Ireland and Co., 1855), by Harriet Martineau and National Association of Factory Occupiers (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Judaic-law : as opposed to English military-law, gaol-for-debt-law, the pauper-law, and factory-slave-law (P. Richardson, 1838), by James W. Peppercorne and Moses Maimonides (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire; in a series of letters to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. (Duncan and Malcolm, 1842), by W. C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of the factory system (Published for the Vineyard Press by J. M. Dent, 1913), by Allen Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral tone of the factory system defended, in a letter to the Lord Bishop of Manchester : being a reply to the allegations of the Rev. Henry Worsley, M.A., contained in a prize essay, entitled "Juvenile depravity," and dedicated by special permission to the Lord Bishop of Norwich (Charles Gilpin, 1850), by F. Baker, James Prince Lee, and Henry Worsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of manufactures, or, an exposition of the scientific, moral, and commercial economy of the factory system of Great Britain (C. Knight, 1835), by Andrew Ure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Factory and Workshop Orders. (H.M.Stationery Off., in the 20th century), by Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts and plain words on every-day subjects, comprised in two speeches delivered at Wakefield on the day of the first election for the West-Riding of Yorkshire, December 20, 1832. To which are added a needful introduction, an address to the electors of the West-Riding, &c. (Printed for the author, by Hernaman & Perring, 1833), by Richard Oastler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laboring classes of England, especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures. (J. Putnam, 1847), by William Dodd and Caroline Sheridan Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the factory movement : from the year 1802 to the enactment of the Ten hours' bill in 1847 (B. Franklin, 1857), by Sam Kydd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply to the two letters of John Elliot Drinkwater, Esquire, and Alfred Power, Esquire, Factory Commissioners (F.E. Bingley, 1833), by Michael Thomas Sadler and Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the Employment of Children in Factories (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experience of factory life : being a record of fourteen years' work at Mr. Courtauld's silk mill at Halstead, in Essex (E. Faithfull, 1862), by Mary Merryweather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the factory system (C. Fox, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)

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