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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: Why should one-half of the boots and shoes used in the United States be manufactured in the 1,500 workshops of…

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Why should one-half of the boots and shoes used in the United States be manufactured in the 1,500 workshops of Massachusetts?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin questions the concentration of boot and shoe manufacturing in Massachusetts, highlighting economic disparities.

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