Skilled Labour Quotes

“Let them, therefore, not talk to us of 'the cost of production' which raises the cost of skilled labour, and tell us that a student who has gaily spent his youth in a university has a right to a wage ten times greater than the son of a miner who has grown pale in a mine since the age of 11; or that a weaver has a right to a wage three or four times greater than that of an agricultural labourer. The cost of teaching a weaver his work is not four times greater than the cost of teaching a peasant his.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings