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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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They live upon wages of from nine to eleven shillings a week, in town slums instead of the country.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin describes the low wages and poor living conditions of workers in urban slums.

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