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Source #1:

Cotton written by Beverly Lemire

Lemire, Beverly. Cotton. Oxford: Berg, 2011.

This book talks about different aspects of cotton from the 1300s to the 1940s. It has five different sections: Bound Up With Cotton: Markets, Global Trade and Cotton Histories, Fashion’s Favorite: The Social Politics of Cotton and the Democratization of Style, Cottage, Mill, Factory, Plantation: The Industrialization of Cotton and The New World Order, Crafting Comfort, Crafting Culture: Cotton and the Rise of Quilt Culture in the Western World, and the Afterward. It was very helpful with more specific information, such as a precise amount of employees that a company would hire.

Source #2: 

The Spinning World edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi

Riello, Giorgio, and Prasannan Parthasarathi. The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press :, 2009.

This book went into specifics as well, but it was more specific about each individual world areas, rather than numerical specifics. There are three parts to this book, however, I used parts I and II respectively: World Areas of Cotton Textile Manufacturing and Global Trade and Consumption of Cotton Textiles.

Source #3:

Cotton, The Plant That Would Be King written by Bertha Dodge

Dodge, Bertha S.. Cotton, The Plant That Would Be King. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

This book was very useful, due to the fact that it focused mainly on factories and workers during the Industrial Revolution. She also focused on the economic impacts that cotton had on the world, talking about production rates and what happened due to the fluctuations in said production rates.

Source #4:

The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South written by Broadus Mitchell

Mitchell, Broadus. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Print.

While working on the Industrial Revolution, this book became very useful in the fact that, it too, focused on factories. While it mainly focused on Southern factories, the book offered some very broad facts relevant to the whole world, rather than only the south.