They live upon wages of from nine to eleven shillings a week, in town slums instead of the country.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “They live upon wages of from nine to eleven shillings a week, in town slums instead of the country.”
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Kropotkin describes the low wages and poor living conditions of workers in urban slums.
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