It is only after they have undergone all sorts of sufferings in their struggles against their employers that some factory workers succeed, more or less, here and there, to wrest from their employers a “living wage”--and this again only in certain trades.
Kropotkin discusses the struggles of factory workers to secure a living wage amidst exploitation.
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Most socialists had hitherto said that in our present civilized societies we actually produce much more than is necessary for guaranteeing full well-being to all.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.
Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.
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