Fields, factories and workshops : $b or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work

"Fields, Factories and Workshops" by P. Kropotkin is an early 20th-century book about society and economics. It examines how agriculture, industrial work, and manual labor can be combined, arguing for a system where making things isn't all in one place and that mixes farming with industry. It stresses how important it is for countries to be able to take care of themselves and encourages different kinds of work to be done by people working together. The book starts with the author talking about how he changed the book for a new version, using new facts and what's happening in the economy to show his points were right. He talks about what industries and agriculture were like then and now, pointing out how things are moving away from everyone doing one thing and toward wanting different kinds of work all mixed together. He emphasizes how important small businesses are, how much farming has improved, and how we need education that teaches science along with real-world skills, leading into a bigger conversation about how different parts of the economy depend on each other.