An acute industrial crisis prevailed that year in most trades, and every morning, and often all the day long, I heard groups of workers going about in the streets singing ‘We’ve got no work to do,’ or some hymn, and begging for bread.
Kropotkin describes the dire economic conditions faced by workers during an industrial crisis in England.
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