luddites

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Topical Term
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luddites

The Luddites: machine-breakers of the early nineteenth century

  • Liversidge, Douglas
1972
Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the machine-wrecking campaign carried on by early nineteenth-century English workers who felt the machines were destroying their jobs.
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