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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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Martin Ryder, Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction (Nov.

Harmonizing fair use and self-help copyright protection of digital music

Even if you've always held Luddism in contempt, here's a case for a big exception to the rule.

Derby 2000: Derby (Mark 1) still beats any machine

Outbreaks of a kind of horological Luddism long predate the establishment of Greenwich Mean.

Greenwich Meanings: Clocks and Things in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction

A new form of Luddism may yet emerge whereby technology is regarded more as a threat than as an enabler.

The Future of Software

2050--In a typically perverse twist of fate, Luddism is momentarily embraced as a popular fad.

The future of Luddites: hand-done using good old brush & ink

Statements by Thomas Pynchon and Martin Heidegger do, however, deepen our understanding of the role of Luddism in The Difference Engine: Pynchon's celebration of the ludic and disruptive aspects of Luddism resonates strongly with the issue of technological ownership and instrumentality; similarly, the critique of the metaphysics of subjectivity and objectivity which underpins Heidegger's understanding of technology in terms other than those of instrumental use enables us to comprehend more fully the issue of technological emergence.

Rethinking Ambivalence: Technopolitics and the Luddites in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine

Another, potentially more damaging, takes its form from the post-modernist intellectual luddism that now pervades many parts of academia and finds its breeding ground in "cultural studies" and related new disciplines.

Face of science at the end of the twentieth century

Gain is an important eco-novel, but Powers, perhaps the most scientifically literate of our current major novelists, refuses to court Luddism.

"The Stereo View": Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain

The new millennium's response has to be far more sophisticated than Luddism, far better argued than the current concern with sustainable development, far superior to gut rejection of, say, fish piracy, a new version of robber baron capitalism.

Consumers can help end crisis in oceans

Chapter 3, on "peasant Luddism, evasion, and self-help," discusses non-violent responses: slaughter of livestock, flight, and petitioning.

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Unemployment fosters this new Luddism, which questions whether so much and growing inequality is needed to achieve the magical productivity said to give everyone bigger incomes and a better life.

Information economics: research strategies

Indeed, despite the alleged ravages inflicted by the "second Industrial Revolution" on modern society, Sale has to admit that Luddism is rare in the modern workplace.

Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution, Lessons for the Computer Age

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