a thoughtful guide for reading Kropotkin, here to help you read Fields, Factories and Workshops closely — Kropotkin's 1912 case, backed by statistics from Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, that decentralized, combined industry-and-agriculture and integrated brain-and-manual work are more productive and more humane than the centralized factory system.
The Argument
Evidence and Legacy
Based on "Fields, Factories and Workshops" by Peter Kropotkin