Download or read book The Luddite Rebellion written by Brian Bailey and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative history provides an account of the events leading up to the machine-breaking of the Luddite Rebellion, describing the progress of the riots in detail, as well as examining their motivation and the political and economic legacy they left behind.
Download or read book Writings of the Luddites written by Kevin Binfield and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As mechanization spread through the British cloth industries in the early nineteenth century, skilled textile workers, already suffering because of a generally weak economy, high unemployment, and the weakening of traditional guides, saw their wages and jobs erode further. Earlier efforts to block the introduction of powered machinery through legislation had failed, and in 1811 loosely organized bands of workers, striking most often by night - first in the Midlands, then in Yorkshire and Northwestern England - began destroying the new knitting frames and other equipment. Claiming as their leader the probably mythical Ned Ludd, they became known as Luddites. Although best known for violent action, the Luddite movement also produced a considerable body of writing, from threatening letters, to petitions and proclamations, to poems and songs. In this book, literary scholar Kevin Binfield collects a broad range of complete texts written by Luddites or their sympathizers from 1811 to 1816, adding detailed notes on each and organizing them according to the three major regions of Luddite activity." "To introduce the volume Binfield provides a historical overview of the Luddites, then examines more closely their rhetorical strategies while illuminating the literary contexts of their writings. Ranging from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone, the texts reveal a fascination with legal forms of address and an acute awareness of the recent political revolutions in France and America, and reflect also the more personal forms of Romantic literature. As Adrian Randall of the University of Birmingham concludes in his foreword, this collection of diverse, carefully presented texts clearly demonstrates the significance of Luddite writings within the movement and serves as an important reference for scholars of rhetoric and of the history of labor, technology, and society." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Luddite Rebellion written by Brian Bailey and published by New York University Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern parlance, "Luddite" has come to mean one who rejects modern ways for a simpler time. While the term is bandied about frequently in our technology-saturated age, the historical events in which the expression finds its origin have largely been forgotten. The Luddite riots, which proved to be one of the defining moments of the Industrial Revolution, began in 1799 when Ned Ludd, a "backward youth," is said to have smashed a knitting frame. Ludd's actions provoked a prolonged outbreak of machine-breaking by desperate textile workers, giving way to a rebellion that would serve as a metaphor for future generations. Who were the Luddites? What were their ultimate aims, if indeed they had any? How were they organized? Who were their leaders? The Luddite Rebellion explores these and other questions, presenting a comprehensive account of the Luddite Rebellion from its beginnings to the savage repression which marked its end.
Download or read book Breaking Things at Work written by Gavin Mueller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and manoeuvres that they would later deploy on unsuspecting machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history; for Gavin Mueller, the movement gets at the heart of the antagonistic relationship between all workers, including us today, and the so-called progressive gains secured by new technologies. The luddites weren't primitive and they are still a force, however unconsciously, in the workplaces of the twenty-first century world. Breaking Things at Work is an innovative rethinking of labour and machines, leaping from textile mills to algorithms, from existentially threatened knife cutters of rural Germany to surveillance-evading truckers driving across the continental United States. Mueller argues that the future stability and empowerment of working-class movements will depend on subverting these technologies and preventing their spread wherever possible. The task is intimidating, but the seeds of this resistance are already present in the neo-Luddite efforts of hackers, pirates, and dark web users who are challenging surveillance and control, often through older systems of communication technology.
Download or read book Rebels Against The Future written by Kirkpatrick Sale and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-04-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular history of the rebellion against technology that still reverberates today. In the 1990s we use the term "luddite" to refer to anyone not enamored of technology. Now the author of The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy takes us back to the time when being a Luddite could get you hanged.
Download or read book The Luddites written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, Britain experienced massive leaps in technological, scientific, and economical advancement. This powerful period has since been immortalized as the great Industrial Revolution, during which Britain became a formidable force that boasted unmatched economical growth, drastic changes in living conditions, and even the emergence of a neglected social class. Vast portions of rural lands were transformed into interconnected, complex, and multitasking cities. Dozens of innovative inventions and products were churned out in bulk and sold to the masses for the first time ever. Some of the greatest thinkers and creators ventured forth from the shadows. Scientists, engineers, merchants, and manufacturers alike were at the height of their prime, nurtured by a culture that embraced the vision of growth, progress, and industrial unity. The Industrial Revolution saw Britain rise to the top and become the envy of the world's most prestigious nations. At the same time, the pivotal era was far from perfect, featuring a dark underbelly and an army of unsung heroes. It was American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler who once called technology "the great growing engine of change." The 18th century German linguist Johann Gottfried von Herder was another proponent of enlightenment and technological progress. "Nothing in Nature stands still," said von Herder. "Everything strives and moves forward." One would be hard-pressed to find anyone today that would disagree with these sentiments. Those whose opinions suggest otherwise are often thoughtlessly dismissed, and those who hold them ridiculed as tin-foil-hat sporting paranoids or pretentious "hipsters." But what happens when the very instruments meant to help people begin to put lives at stake? Meet the Luddites, a 19th century brotherhood of rebels who vowed to annihilate every last one of the newfangled spinning machines that cost thousands their jobs. The Luddites' riots are indefensible, at least from the standpoint of violence, but they beg the question of whether the protests were nonsensical acts of rage carried out by thugs who sought to exploit imagined fears or desperate measures taken by those who felt neglected by the government. The Luddites: The History and Legacy of the English Rebels Who Protested against Advanced Machinery during the Industrial Revolution chronicles the revolution and the negative reaction to it. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Luddites like never before.
Download or read book Blood in the Machine written by Brian Merchant and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Wired, and the Financial Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read" The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world—and is shaping our future.
Download or read book Through the Fray written by George Alfred Henty and published by London : Blackie ; Toronto : Copp Clark Company, [188-?]. This book was released on 1886 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the present century glorious as it was for British arms abroad was a dark time to those who lived by their daily labor at home.
Download or read book Against Technology written by Steven E. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question of what it might mean today to be a Luddite--that is, to take a stand against technology. Steven Jones here explains the history of the Luddites, British textile works who, from around 1811, proclaimed themselves followers of "Ned Ludd" and smashed machinery they saw as threatening their trade. Against Technology is not a history of the Luddites, but a history of an idea: how the activities of a group of British workers in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire came to stand for a global anti-technology philosophy, and how an anonymous collective movement came to be identified with an individualistic personal conviction. Angry textile workers in the early nineteenth century became romantic symbols of a desire for a simple life--certainly not the original goal of the actions for which they became famous. Against Technology is, in other words, a book about representations, about the image and the myth of the Luddites and how that myth was transformed over time into modern neo-Luddism.
Download or read book The Risings of the Luddites Chartists Plug drawers written by Frank Peel and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Fray written by G a Henty and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally Published 1886 Features 12 Illustrations The fictional tale of Ned Ludd, the leader of the Luddite Rebellion in Yorkshire, England in the early 1800s. Newly Edited with new typesetting for ease of reading. Contains regional dialects or accented English. Chapter List A Fishing Expedition The Fight on the Moor A Cropper Village The Worms Turn The New Master The Thief Detected A Terrible Shock Ned is Sorely Tried A Painful Time Troubles at Home The New Machinery Murdered! Committed for Trial Committed for Trial Not Guilty Luke Marner's Sacrifice A Lonely Life Ned is Attacked The Attack on Cartwright's Mill Cleared at Last This edition is only available in paperback. Brought to you by The Ages Publishing.
Download or read book Through the Fray written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of the English Working Class written by Edward Palmer Thompson and published by IICA. This book was released on 1964 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Download or read book The Luddites written by Malcolm I. Thomis and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims to place Luddism within the context of machine-breaking as a long-established practice of industrial relations, and to assess its role within the many movements of social protest that were occurring in this period. The causes, aims and organization of Luddism are examined.
Download or read book Rebels Against the Future written by Kirkpatrick Sale and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Fray written by George Alfred Henty and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1890 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the present century glorious as it was for British arms abroad was a dark time to those who lived by their daily labor at home.
Download or read book The Language of Inequality in the News written by Michael Toolan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how UK wealth inequality is discussed in newspapers, with a particular focus on changes over the past forty-five years.
