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Categories: Industrial Revolution, History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom, Political philosophy by politician, 1812 in economics, Technophobia

Luddite Luddite movement Luddite revolution E. P. Thompson on Luddites E.P.Thompson on Luddites

One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment WordNet 3.0

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One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers which opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, often by destroying the machines in clandestine raids. Wikipedia

Any of a group of early 19th-century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood. Wiktionary

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workman

political movement

syndicalism

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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

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Ludim

FIELD OF WORK

mechanophobia