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Soon, workers who had seen their wages reduced and their jobs threatened by unskilled rivals began breaking into factories and destroying machines. ... Luddites: War against the machines - Page 1 ... LUDDITES use a sledgehammer and a crowbar to smash power looms in a weaving shed...
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www.cottontimes.co.uk/luddo.htm
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Modern-day Luddites actually borrow the name from one Ned Ludd, ... But why did the workers attack the machines? Wage cuts and the threat of losing their livelihood. What did they do? They broke into factories at night to smash hundreds of new power machines that they believed had deskilled them, and were enabling employers...
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onlignment.com/2009/10/beware-the-luddite-within/
onlignment.com/2009/10/beware-the-luddite-within/
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New Technologies and the Cultural Ecology of Primary Schooling: Imagining Teachers as Luddites In/Deedi ... Thompson, 1968) to argue that the Luddites "Smash the Machines!" form of resistance to mechanized looms was not motivated by an abstract, general anti-technological stance.
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educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/gentech/Luddites.html
educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/gentech/Luddites.html
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Thompson, 1968) to argue that the Luddites' "smash the machines" form of resistance to mechanized looms was not motivated by an abstract, general anti-technological stance.
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www.umich.edu/~psycours/561/bryson.htm
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1969: "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Kurt Vonnegut, haunted since World War II by his memories of living through the Dresden firestorm, ... Shortly after the neo-Luddites smash the machines (though only in a few US cities), they're happily tinkering with the bits and putting them together again.
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www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx158.html
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· 1,000,000 B.C. Fire and the development of early stone tools ... · 10,000 B.C. Yeast for leavening bread ... · 1811 A.D. Luddites smash knitting machines in Britain...
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www.mrgrad.com/timeline1.htm
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History 203 - Martin S. Staum, The University of Calgary ... POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REACTIONS TO INDUSTRIALIZATION ... II. The "Luddites" - artisans smash machines; limited success, but backward- looking protest crushed by military force...
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www.ucalgary.ca/HIST/staum/Ind4.html
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Or, to create full employment we could all become Luddites and smash the machines because they are stealing work from humans. Or, with a socialist solution, we could create masses of make-work jobs, no matter how much time, energy and resources and people's lives are wasted.
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www.welfarewarriors.org/mwv_archive/f07/f07_choice.htm
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It smashed thousands of machines, ... What was different about the Luddites was exactly the opposite of how many imagine them. ... Luddite attacks on frames decreased. But this wasn't solely because of the state. Trye, the towns were awash with soldiers, but there weren't that many frames left to smash. Luddism changed form.
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www.eco-action.org/dod/no6/luddites.htm
www.eco-action.org/dod/no6/luddites.htm
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