Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a ... A photograph from 1910 showing child labour in cotton mills in Georgia, USA. Children were a cheap source of labour in textile factories ...

While the simple cotton dress was rising in popularity, the Industrial Revolution was making major strides to aid in textile production. When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794 ...

In this week's The Way We Were we look at the history of the cotton industry – which helped turn Manchester into the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution ... women and children with their ...