Consequently, in the best German cotton mills and ironworks the wages of the worker (we know it directly for the ironworks from the above-mentioned inquiry of the British Iron Trade Association) are not lower than they are in Great Britain.
Kropotkin states that wages in German cotton mills and ironworks are comparable to those in Great Britain.
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Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.
And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
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