Fields, Factories, and Workshops
First published 1899 · 273 pages · about 5 hours to read
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Fields, Factories, and Workshops is an 1899 book by anarchist Peter Kropotkin that discusses the decentralization of industries, possibilities of agriculture, and uses of small industries. Before this book on economics, Kropotkin had been known for his militant activity in behalf of international anarchism and writings on Siberian geography. Through the book, he sought to connect anarchism with science, based on sociological tendencies. The book was compiled from essays he had published in Nineteenth Century and Forum between 1888 and 1890. The book was first published in 1899 by Houghton-Mifflin (Boston) and Hutchinson (London) to favorable reviews among Britons. It has since been republished in multiple editions: Swan Sonnenschein (London) and Putnam (New York) in 1901, 1904, 1907, 1909, and Nelson (London) and Putnam (New York) in 1913 and 1919. Reproductions of the first and second editions appeared in 1968. A later edition, edited by Colin Ward for Harper & Row, released in 1974 with more contemporary illustrations as Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow.
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Quotes
“Who does not remember the remarkable chapter by which Adam Smith opens his inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations?”
Chapter I “For thousands of years in succession to grow one’s food was the burden, almost the curse, of mankind. But it need be so no more.”
Chapter IX “Now,” Mr. Thomson added, “they are sold at the tenth or twentieth part of the above prices. Cheap coal--cheap grapes; that is the whole secret.”
Chapter V “Through the eyes and the hand to the brain”--this is the true principle of economy of time in teaching.
Chapter VIII “Man is conspicuous by his absence from those meadows; he rolls them with a heavy roller in the spring; he spreads some manure every two or three years; then he disappears until the time has come to make hay.”
Chapter III
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