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Family ironworks in
Dalarna, Sweden, beginning of the 18th century. The man is charging a
bloomery furnace, the woman works the bellows (with her feet, while
spinning with her hands), and the boy is cleaving a red-hot bloom with
an axe. (Jernkontorets annaler,
1845, 29.1,
pl. 3). Background to the Great Leap Forward |