1779 | The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton. |
Volume 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 152–155
Abstract
Hostility
towards machinery was more widespread in the early Industrial
Revolution than is customarily supposed and machine-breakers themselves
were far from the mindless opponents of change they are often portrayed
as being. Luddism marked not merely a turning point in the take-up of
machinery but also a significant moment in the wider debate between
conflicting political economies. It also crystallized a watershed in the
attitudes of the State towards industrial protest and industrial
regulation.
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