who were the luddites?
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Luddites During the Industrial Revolution: Definition & Overview The Luddites were textile workers in Great Britain that resisted the changes brought about by the improving technology of the Industrial Revolution, including loss of jobs. The Industrial Revolution was a period of time in the early 19th century during which machinery began to replace hand production, water and steam power began to improve, and the factory system became implemented.
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- These days Luddite is a cudgel, an indictment of fuzzy-headed nostalgia. But the impulse to preserve a boundary between human and machine is anything but passe. Passé these Days luddite is a, cudgel an indictment of-fuzzy headed. nostalgia
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Luddite For the EP by Grotus, see Luddite (EP). The Leader of the Luddites, engraving of 1812. The Luddites were a group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting the use of machinery in a fraudulent and deceitful manner to get around standard labour practices.
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Itâs OK to Be a Luddite But unless you’re willing to go that far, to be a Luddite you only have to advocate against future technology, not for a return to the past. Consequently, the Luddite impulse is to embrace a certain distinction between human and machine. Thomas Pynchon put his finger on it in 1984 (“ Is It O.K.
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Boy George George was a follower of the New Romantic movement which was popular in Britain in the early 1980s. He lived in various squats around Warren Street in Central London. He and his friend Marilyn were regulars at The Blitz, a trendy London nightclub run by Steve Strange of the group Visage.
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- neo-luddite. 1  a new promoter of the ideas of Ned Ludd and his people who destroyed industrial technologies while the Industrial Revolution was taking place. Neo-luddites come in many forms, and oppose technology for different reasons.
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- There is one that reminded me of the old English song—‘Sumer is i-kumen in—lude sing kuku.’ The Spell of Switzerland Nathan Haskell Dole FitzOsbern had half-turned in his saddle and was surveying the rugged hill of lude upon the other side of the ford. Star of Mercia Blanche Devereux The Comte du lude then came forward with his customary 'sang-froid', and begged the exorcists to perform before him. Cinq Mars, Complete Alfred de Vigny This Lamont harp was taken by a lady of that family from Argyleshire about 1460, on her marriage into the family of lude.
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What the Luddites Really Fought Against Three Luddites were hanged for the murder; other courts, often under political pressure, sent many more to the gallows or to exile in Australia before the last such disturbance, in 1816. One technology the Luddites commonly attacked was the stocking frame, a knitting machine first developed more than 200 years earlier by an Englishman named William Lee.
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