Fields, Factories, and Workshops - Or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work : With an Excerpt From Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. This book comprises a fascinating discussion of the future of agriculture as conceived at the start of the twentieth century. It explores the advantages which societies could derive from a combination of industrial pursuits with intensive agriculture, and'brain work'with manual work. This is a book that is sure to appeal to those with a keen interest in the history of agriculture, and is a text not to be missed by the discerning collector of vintage farming literature. Chapters include:'The Decentralisation of Industries','The Possibilities of Agriculture','Small Industries and Industrial Villages','Brain Work and Manual Work', and more. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist, geographer, geographer, biologist, philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. He was a prolific writer, producing a large number of pamphlets and articles, the most notable being “The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops” and “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from “Comrade Kropotkin” by Victor Robinson. **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*. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields,_Factories,_and_Workshops)) FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work,......Page 1 PREFACE......Page 2 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.......Page 3 THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES.......Page 5 Footnotes......Page 14 THE DECENTRALIZATION OF INDUSTRIES......Page 16 Footnotes......Page 24 THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE......Page 26 Footnotes......Page 34 THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE......Page 37 Footnotes......Page 45 THE POSSIBILITIES Of AGRICULTURE......Page 48 Footnotes......Page 61 Small Industries and Industrial Village......Page 63 Footnotes......Page 87 Small Industries and Industrial Villages (continued)......Page 89 Footnotes......Page 98 BRAIN WORK AND MANUAL WORK......Page 101 Footnotes......Page 113 CONCLUSION.......Page 116 Footnotes......Page 119 Appendix......Page 120