Knowing that in most cases the advent of the factory would mean no work at all for most men, and the taking of the children and girls to the factory, they do the utmost to prevent it from appearing at all in the village.
Kropotkin explains the efforts of villagers to prevent factories from establishing in their communities due to job loss concerns.
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