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The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested – often by destroying mechanized looms – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt threatened their livelihood. This English historical movement...
According to Rybczynski (1983), the Luddites, named after King Ludd, or Ned Ludd, organized against technological advances in the textile industry in the Regency area of England from 1811-1816. ...
The Luddites are fighting for the right cause, but in the wrong way. They are right to protest against machines replacing their jobs but they should not destroy machines and factory property.
Today's Luddites continue to raise moral and ethical arguments against the excesses of modern technology to the extent that our inventions and our technical systems have evolved to control us rather ...
Historically, Luddites flourished In Britain from about 1811 to 1816. They were bands of men, organized, masked, anonymous, whose object was to destroy machinery used mostly in the textile industry.
The Prince Regent offered a £50 reward for information about the Luddites and in February, 1812, as the problem spread North, ... Luddites: War against the machines - Page 1
Luddites were men who took the name of a (perhaps) mythical individual, Ned Ludd who was reputed to live in Sherwood Forest. ... Some Luddites were active in Lancashire also. ...
This historical overview is an extract from Kevin Binfield, ed., Writings of the Luddites (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, ... The Luddites were not, ...
However the government liked to portray the Luddites as mindless vandals. ... Fourteen Luddites were hanged by 1813. more were transported to Australia and thousands of people were fined.
An essay inspired by Kirckpatrick Sale's book about the Luddites, Rebels Against the Future ... Luddites passed and present
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