Manual workers--not men of science nor trained engineers--have invented, or brought to perfection, the prime motors and all that mass of machinery which has revolutionised industry for the last hundred years.
Kropotkin credits manual workers with the invention and perfection of machinery that transformed industry over the past century.
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And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
Altogether, the worker is much more at the mercy of the dealer or the employer, and the employer is at the mercy of the wholesale dealer.
Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
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