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Many of my readers will probably be astonished to learn that even in the cotton industry a great number of quite small factories continue to exist up to the present day.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Many of my readers will probably be astonished to learn that even in the cotton industry a great number of quite small…”
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He expresses surprise at the continued existence of numerous small factories in the cotton industry, challenging assumptions about industrial size.
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