What were backyard production plants

In China, backyard furnaces (土法炼钢) were small blast furnaces used by the people of China ... Not until 1959 did the Party realize that only large industrial smelting plants were making steel of any value. ... had not been forgotten, the pig iron was indeed further refined into steel, and steel production actually did increase.

Explanation:

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

explanation:

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