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Bookmark or Share- Luddite - World History EncyclopediaThe Luddites are known for being followers of Ned Ludd and smashing textile machines during the Industrial Revolution. The Luddites were often handweavers who had lost their jobs to mechanized factories.
- What the Luddites Really Fought Against | SmithsonianMarch 2011. Ludd, drawn here in 1812, was the fictitious leader of numerous real protests. Granger Collection, New York. In an essay in 1984—at the dawn of the personal computer era—the ...
- Who Were the Luddites? | HISTORYBritish Museum. “Luddite” is now a blanket term used to describe people who dislike new technology, but its origins date back to an early 19th-century labor movement that railed against the ways...
- Luddite | Industrial Revolution, Machine-Breaking, Protest MovementDate: 1811 - 1816. Luddite, member of the organized bands of 19th-century English handicraftsmen who rioted for the destruction of the textile machinery that was displacing them. The movement began in the vicinity of Nottingham toward the end of 1811 and in the next year spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire.
- The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism | The MIT Press ReaderOriginating in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution in the first two decades of the 19th century, Luddism was a movement arising as a response to poor working conditions in nascent textile manufacturing businesses.
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