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Why should not hundreds of domestic industries, now carried on entirely by hand, resort to labour-saving machines, as they already do in the knitting trade and many others?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin advocates for the adoption of labor-saving machines in domestic industries.
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