The girls and boys are always happy to find an independent livelihood which emancipates them from the control of the family.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The girls and boys are always happy to find an independent livelihood which emancipates them from the control of the…”
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Kropotkin notes the sense of independence that factory work provides to young people from rural areas.
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