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The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who violently protested against the machinery introduced during the Industrial Revolution that made it possible to replace them with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work. Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration, as the scattering of manufactories throughout the country made large-scale strikes impractical.
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| The Luddite Link - Comprehensive historical resour... The Luddite Link - Comprehensive historical resources for the original West Yorkshire Luddites, University of Huddersfield. www.ludditelink.org.uk/index.php - Web |
| The Uprising Series, a series of creative events m... The Uprising Series, a series of creative events marking the bicentenary of the Luddites' uprisings in West Yorkshire, led by the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield www.uprisingevents.org - Web |
| Is it O.K. to be a Luddite? by Thomas Pynchon Is it O.K. to be a Luddite? by Thomas Pynchon www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html - Web |
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| Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryd... Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver School of Education carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html - Web |
| The Luddites and the Combination Acts The Luddites and the Combination Acts www.marxists.org/history/england/combination-laws/index.htm - Web |
