Luddites

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luddites

Luddites, name given to bands of workingmen in the industrial centers of England who rioted between 1811 and 1816. The uprisings began in Nottinghamshire, where groups of textile
The Luddites often appeared at a factory in disguise and stated that they had come upon the orders of General Ned Ludd. These demands included restoration of reasonable rates of
Few people describe themselves as neo-Luddites (though it is common, certainly in the UK, for people to self-deprecatingly describe themselves as Luddites if they dislike or have
Lud·dite   (l d t) n. 1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would
Luddites. As the Industrial Revolution began, weavers and other skilled artisans resisted the new “labor-saving” machines that were costing them jobs. They smashed machines
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Neo-Luddites and Dystopian Views of Technology Cultural change necessarily involves resistance to change. The term Luddite has been resurrected from a previous era to describe one
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modern luddites noun . a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811â€"16) organized to

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