Under the pretext of division of labour, we have sharply separated the brain worker from the manual worker.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Under the pretext of division of labour, we have sharply separated the brain worker from the manual worker.”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin critiques the division of labor for creating a disconnect between mental and manual work.
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