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Luddite
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Luddite
A term for workers in the early 19th century in Britain who opposed the Industrial Revolution because increased mechanization was changing the economy and leaving them without jobs. The term has come to mean any person who opposes technological changes, especially those that impact the economy.
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Another uncle was Enoch Taylor, who made the cloth cropping machine which provoked the Luddite riots, culminating in the murder of Marsden mill-owner William Horsfall.
Marsden connection to an American tradition; Family history US stores ... by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
The Luddite riots that began in 1811 in England spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire as wheat prices soar and inflate the price of bread.
Happened in 1812 - the year Harrry Clasper was born by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
This day in history 1779:The first Luddite riots began in Manchester, where workers smashed the feared cotton spinning machines.
About this day by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
 
 
 
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