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Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work
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Pyotr Kropotkin
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Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921) was one of the most interesting figures to emerge from the Russian Communist movement, developing the path of Communist Anarchism: he was not associated, either in theory or practice with the violence associated with that time of great change. Born into a Russian aristocratic land-owning family, he was affected by the injustice he saw as a young man on his father’s estate and committed himself early to social change; but his study and interest in science, geography, anthropology and philosophy enriched and broadened his political views.
Fields, Factories, and Workshops (1898) was one of his three most important texts (along with The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid - also available on Ukemi Audiobooks). Its subtitle - Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work - indicates that although he starts from a Marxist standpoint, concerned with the exploitation of the wage labourer and the inequality suffered by the majority of the social classes, he was equally concerned with the ‘human needs of the individual’.
Kropotkin argues that science of political economy should acknowledge that the life of the human being went beyond the narrow presentation of him as a wage-earning, labouring worker.
‘Man shows his best when he is in a position to apply his usually varied capacities to several pursuits in the farm, the workshop, the factory, the study or the studio, instead of being riveted for life to one of these pursuits only.’ A crucial observation in Kropotkin’s time, this is equally relevant to the 21st century!
Fields, Factories, and Workshops is a collection of essays written between 1888-1890. It opens with ‘The Decentralisation of Industries’ and continues with ‘The Possibilities of Agriculture’ and ‘Small Industries and Industrial Villages’ and concludes with ‘Brain Work and Manual Work’. Kropotkin discusses in some detail statistics of economic activity in the UK and Russia as well as mainland Europe - Germany, France, etc. He looks at trade and manufacturing, import and export, its growth and change during the 19th century and its effect as industrial development takes an increasingly strong hold on societies. And in his conclusion, he warns, ‘Are the means now in use for satisfying human needs, under the present system of permanent division of functions and production for profits, really economical? Do they really lead to economy in the expenditure of human forces ? Or, are they not mere wasteful survivals from a past that was plunged into darkness, ignorance and oppression, and never took into consideration the economical and social value of the human being?’
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Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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- De semarla en 01-31-21
De: Simon Winchester
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A Revolution Down on the Farm
- The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
- De: Paul K. Conkin
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century.
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Excellent review of farming history in US
- De Joanne en 01-26-14
De: Paul K. Conkin
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Wage-Labor and Capital
- De: Karl Marx
- Narrado por: Prashant Vallury
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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"Wage-Labor and Capital" is an 1847 essay on economics by Karl Marx, which was first published in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung two years later. This essay has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx’s important treatise, Das Kapital.
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great book
- De Mike j. en 02-01-22
De: Karl Marx
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- De: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrado por: Caroline Cole
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
- De Anonymous User en 02-05-22
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Ramp Hollow
- The Ordeal of Appalachia
- De: Steven Stoll
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Appalachia - among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America - has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise, and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in US history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common.
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Almost unlistenable
- De Golf Fan en 09-13-18
De: Steven Stoll
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Coffeeland
- One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
- De: Augustine Sedgewick
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 500-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity.
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Unfortunately
- De Brian en 06-06-20
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Work
- A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
- De: James Suzman
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Work defines who we are. It determines our status and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hardwired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are.
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if you like Jared Diamond's work, you'll like this
- De Mark en 04-09-22
De: James Suzman
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The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to the Age of Reason and a Period of Major Industrialization
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then this two-in-one books bundle is for you. Includes: Age of Enlightenment and The Industrial Revolution.
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Great overview of the subject
- De Vanimal en 09-20-23
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Empire of Cotton
- A Global History
- De: Sven Beckert
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
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Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially recast the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia. We see how industrial capitalism then reshaped these worlds of cotton into an empire, and how this empire transformed the world.
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A New History of Global Capitalism
- De Lucian of Samosata en 03-17-15
De: Sven Beckert
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The Industrial Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin, Electricity, and Other Inventions
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power. This was the same across the eras and throughout the world, no matter how advanced or backward the various civilizations were. Yet, our lives today couldn’t be more different.
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Excellent introduction
- De H. Paavilainen en 09-26-21
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- De: Mark Bittman
- Narrado por: Mark Bittman
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver: Food. In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments.
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Mostly Junk
- De Daniel Ducat en 05-22-21
De: Mark Bittman
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Energy and Civilization
- A History
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 20 h y 9 m
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In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras.
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Not a good format for this book
- De C. Hoogeboom en 05-19-18
De: Vaclav Smil
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Nature's Metropolis
- Chicago and the Great West
- De: William Cronon
- Narrado por: Jonah Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 8 m
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In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.
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Moving
- De JB en 02-09-18
De: William Cronon
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- Anonymous User
- 08-22-22
Enlightening anarchist text
Compared to Kropotkin’s other work, I was underwhelmed by the first few essays of this book. Although they were still interesting. The last two essays were excellent however. I would argue the last essays “Brain Work and Manual Work” is one of the most important in the history of anarchist theory.
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- David Gordon
- 01-21-21
Not Applicable to 21st Century, Still Worth Read
The agricultural revolution of 1900s renders most of book irrelevant. Still, good analysis on 1800s
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- TheFrozenBiscuit
- 04-16-20
Excellent
A must read for anyone looking to understand the Left in general and Anarchism in particular.
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