The industry of dried fruit, and especially of dried vegetables, has not yet developed in this country, the result being that during the Boer War Britain paid a weekly tribute to Germany for dried vegetables, which attained many thousands of pounds every week.
Kropotkin highlights Britain's reliance on Germany for dried vegetables during the Boer War due to underdeveloped local industries.
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They are entirely in our institutions, in our inheritances and survivals from the past--in the “Ghosts” which oppress us.
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.
The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
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