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The most wonderful adaptations of the small industries to new requirements, and substantial technical progress in the methods of production, can be noted at the same time.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin observes significant advancements in small industries adapting to new demands.
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Altogether, the worker is much more at the mercy of the dealer or the employer, and the employer is at the mercy of the wholesale dealer.
At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.
But force is reciprocal; and if the god of war always sides with the strongest battalions, those battalions are strongest which fight for new rights against outgrown privileges.
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