It is only after they have undergone all sorts of sufferings in their struggles against their employers that some factory workers succeed, more or less, here and there, to wrest from their employers a “living wage”--and this again only in certain trades.
Kropotkin discusses the struggles of factory workers to secure a living wage amidst exploitation.
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