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What appears quite distinctly from the last census is the rapid decrease in the numbers of artisans who work single-handed, mostly without the aid of machinery.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin highlights the decline of individual artisans in the industrial landscape based on census data.
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