Why Do Shoemaker Love Making Revolution?

Every industry will make its practitioners develop a unique character, a special temperament. A butcher in nineteenth Century wrote that the butcher looked more serious and more vigorous; the porter was inquisitive and chatting; the whitewashed workers were careless and careless, and the shoemaker and the cobbler were famous for their participation in the political radical movement. Many of them love reading and read heresy.

When people gather together, if someone comes up to speak, do not ask, it must be a shoemaker. The shoemaker's love of revolution was the common feeling of the people at that time. In the first act of Julis Caesar, Shakespeare wrote that a shoemaker led the protest crowd across the street. His audience is sure to understand.

After twentieth Century, the traditional shoemaker became a shoemaker in the factory. They made shoes for distant customers who were not familiar with the factory, and the industry changed completely. A radical shoemaker has also become a mark of history. Only water vapor is still hard to condense into raindrops. But as long as there are some humble little dust, it will soon gather into clouds and rain. The country shoemaker in nineteenth Century is such a condensation nucleus.

Perhaps this is just a prejudice. Indeed, after the failure of the Paris commune in 1871, the percentage of shoemaker was the highest among the exiled workers. But in the 1848 Berlin March revolution, the number of carpenter casualties was more than two times that of the shoemaker. Probably, many of the shoemaker's radicals are only related to the larger scale of their industry. In Germany and Britain, shoemaker is the largest in every craftsman industry.

It is not because shoes need to be read more. Skilled craftsmen rely on craftsmanship. Craft It is a kind of "tacit knowledge". It can only be understood and can not be explained. It is practice makes perfect. Without it, hand cooked. Nor is it because shoemaker has always been radical. The shoemaker has a long tradition. In this tradition, no shoemaker is taught to be more radical.

Shoemaker is a lonely profession. In Germany in 1882, 2/3 of shoemaker did not hire assistants. Blacksmith strike iron, noisy environment, difficult to communicate with others. The shoemaker wandering around with his toolbox, seeking a place where he could work and sleep. In the solitude, the shoemaker thought while he was working and had to pass through intelligence himself.

In other industries, reading is often sneered at by peers, but among shoemaker, there are not few readers who love reading. During this period, all kinds of new ideas emerged one after another. Secular democratic thought, Jacob's radical thinking, republicanism, cooperative thought, socialist ideology and anarchism all made the shoemaker hungry.

　　 Shoemaker The more books we read and the more we think, the more resentful we feel. Shoemaker's work needs sitting and does not need to spend too much energy, which is the most effortless job for rural men. Many children who are thin, weak, weak, and even physically deficient eventually join the industry. The lame and hunchback shoemaker can often be seen in the countryside. In 1813, the United States Navy enlistment order provided that no experienced person could join the army, but no tailor, shoemaker or black man, because most of the occupations of tailors or shoemaker did not have a strong physique.

Even a tailor can look down upon a shoemaker. The tailor's customers are mostly rich, and the poor's clothes are made by themselves. Shoemaker, of course, also serves the rich, but their customers are mainly poor people. Shoemaker should deal with leather, peeling, cleaning and tanning. They are dirty and dirty jobs. Shoes are even cheaper than shoes, but even if they are Shoemaking They often eat too much and have to patch shoes.

The poor and lonely shoemaker has a heart that loves freedom. The shoemaker's entry threshold is very low, and the funds needed are few, so the number of shoemaker is large. Unlike other craftsmen, shoemaker is seldom restricted by trade associations. Their customers are mostly in the countryside, but they are free to live in villages. Poor people buy shoes, shoes, often can not afford to pay, they have to first credit, after the harvest has money, and then to the shoemaker's money. The cobbler's customers should trust his craft, and he must trust their customers' honesty. There will be a more intimate relationship between the shoemaker and his customers.

As you can imagine, in a village holiday market, a lame shoe maker walks into the crowd. Most of these villagers are illiterate and have never left the village. In their view, there are still several books in the toolbox, often a shoemaker in big cities, who is a legend. The shoemaker had a good tongue and a clear tongue. His stories were all unheard of by the Hicks. He told us that all the townspeople got up and rebelled, and those who oppressed the people were just paper tigers.

He told us what governments and churches are deceptive. He told us that one of the most fashionable words was exploitation, and all the people present were exploited. People listened happily, and surrounded the shoemaker into the country inn. The owner of a tavern is also a shoe maker's old friend, a few glasses of beer, and everyone's ears are hot and drunk. No wonder people say that the real occupation of country shoemaker and pub owner is to revolutionize.