Fields, Factories and Workshops (The Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin, V. 9) - Hardcover

Kropotkin, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1895431395 ISBN 13: 9781895431391

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 1995

Synopsis

It would not be an exaggeration to describe this book as the central work of Kropotkin’s writing career. In one way or another, it occupied more than twenty years of his life. It is a work of argument and suggestion rather than dogmatic statement, and the very tentativeness of this great book makes its perceptions all the more relevant.

While at one time Kropotkin’s view of our future might have been regarded as a utopian dream, today, as a result of the growing realisation that the world’s resources of energy and raw materials are finite, that food is our most precious commodity and that most people’s working lives are futile and stultifying, the lessons of this book, for both the rich world and the poor, are topical and hopeful.

In addition to a general introduction to the most significant aspects of Kropotkin’s life and thought, George Woodcock has prepared a comprehensive afterword to each essay, allowing the reader to fully see Kropotkin’s ideas in the context of the world a century later.

It is the 9th volume of The Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin.

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About the Author

Yaacov Oved has been a member of Kibbutz Palmachim ever since its establishment in 1949. He is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University’s department of history and a research fellow of Yad Tabenkin. He has engaged in the research of communes throughout the world and has published books and articles on this subject in Hebrew, English, and Spanish. He was one of the founders of the International Communal Studies Association (ICSA) in 1985 and servedas its chairman until 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1895431395
• ISBN 13: 9781895431391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 255