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cheap and shoddy products, would shrink to the pro- 

 duction of those fabrics and those garments which it 

 is impractical for the average family to produce for 

 itself. 



If enough families were to make their homes eco- 

 nomically productive, undesirable and non-essential 

 factories of all sorts would disappear and only those 

 which would be desirable and essential because they 

 would be making tools and machines, electric light 

 bulbs, iron and copper pipe, wire of all kinds, and the 

 myriad of things which can best be made in factories, 

 would remain to furnish employment to those be- 

 nighted human beings who prefer to work in fac- 

 tories. 



Domestic production, if enough people turned to 

 it, would not only annihilate the undesirable and non- 

 essential factory by depriving it of a market for its 

 products. It would do more. It would release men and 

 women from their present thralldom to the factory 

 and make them masters of machines instead of serv- 

 ants to them; it would end the power of exploiting 

 them which ruthless, acquisitive, and predatory men 

 now possess; it would free them for the conquest of 

 comfort, beauty and understanding. 



