LUDDITES

name given to bands of workingmen in the industrial centers of England who rioted between 1811 and 1816. The uprisings began in Nottinghamshire, where groups of textile workers, in the name of a mythical figure called Ned Ludd, or King Ludd, destroyed knitting machines, to which they attributed the prevailing unemployment and low wages. In 1812 workers in Lancashire, Cheshire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire began to wreck cotton power looms and wool shearing machines. There was no political aim involved and no cohesion in the movement. Outbreaks of Luddism were very harshly suppressed by the government.

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Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England
Book by Jay Losey, William D. Brewer; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000
Subjects: English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Male Authors--History And Criticism, Gay Men In Literature, Gay Men's Writings, English--History And Criticism, Homosexuality And Literature--England--History--19th Century, Men In Literature, Men--England--Sexual Behavior--History--19th Century, Sex In Literature
...and Beckford, Binfields essay on the Luddites, specifically the 1811-13 riots, and...for a part of the pro- cess. For the Luddites, cloth making led to a bond between men...manufacturer. Vi- olence erupted when the Luddites united, dressing themselves in their...
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Inheritance
Book by Phyllis Bentley; The Macmillan Company, 1932
Subjects: Fiction
...atop o Hartshead Moor by tLuddites." "Luddites!" exclaimed Will contemptuously."Therell never be any Luddites in the Ire Valley," he added with the...bigger shop." "Thatll depend on the Luddites, I suppose," sneered Will, angered by...
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Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England
Book by Adrian Randall; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Great Britain--Economic Conditions--18th Century, Great Britain--History--18th Century, Great Britain--Social Conditions--18th Century, Riots--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Violence--England--History--18th Century
...The Repudiation of the Moral Economy 209 10 Before the Luddites: Machinery, Regulation, and the State 240 11 Engines of...and of the protestors themselves. Chapter Ten, Before the Luddites: Machinery, Regulation, and the State, looks at the ways in...
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Technophobia: The Psychological Impact of Information Technology
Book by Mark J. Brosnan; Routledge, 1998
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Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life
Book by Kevin Robins, Frank Webster; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Communication And Culture, Information Society, Information Technology--Social Aspects
...than mere technical matters. What the Luddites were fighting against, more broadly...and it was this alien order that the Luddites were seeking to resist. How is this...Reacting to the reflex dismissal of the Luddites, we urged that they be approached with...
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Writings of the Luddites
Journal article by Malcolm Hardman; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Writings of the Luddites (Book)--Book reviews
Writings of the Luddites. by Malcolm Hardman Writings of the Luddites. Ed. by KEVIN BINFIELD. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...always both retrospective and prospective, the Luddites exemplify a long struggle, not to abolish or transcend...
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Theorizing in Real Time: Hyperaesthetics for the Technoculture
Journal article by Peter Lunenfeld; Afterimage, Vol. 23, 1996
Subjects: Digital electronics--Social aspects, Technological innovations--Social aspects, Technology--Social aspects
...to critique the technoculture. NEO-LUDDITES All technologies should be assumed...as far as others. In deference to the Luddites, those early nineteenth-century bands...environment, culture and technology. The neo-luddites do more than risk the approbation of...
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Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere Between Ideology and Rhetoric
Journal article by Takayum Tatsumi; Critique, Vol. 39, 1997
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...engine later performs the ideology of the Luddites, the adversaries of the Radicals. The Luddites connect Thomas Pynchon "Vineland" and...which spells out a brief history of the Luddites and contains numerous quotations, including...
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Brave New Digital World
Journal article by Janet Gezari; Essays in Criticism, Vol. 49, 1999
Subjects: Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism, Literature--History And Criticism
...condescension is palpable: Scholars and theorists today can hardly be Luddites, though they can be suspicious of the latest form of information...threatens, their power and position. 1 I suppose we cant be Luddites because the technological juggernaut wont be stalled by any...
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The Politics of Allusion: Brave New World and the Debates about Biotechnologies
Journal article by Gene Mcquillan; Studies in the Humanities, Vol. 33, 2006
Subjects: Allusions--Analysis, Bioethics--Analysis, Biotechnology--Analysis, Biotechnology--Political aspects
...Articles such as Stephen Phillipss "Bio-Luddites Square Up to Friends of Frankenstein...trained scientist. The Bible of the Bio-Luddites Youve had no scientific training, so...criticisms of biotechnology: The bio-Luddites reached back through the decades and...
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Listening to the Luddites: "The Overwhelming Impact of Technology on Our Lives-And the Certainty of Its Increase-Require That We Have a Systemic Approach to Technology Assessment."
Magazine article by Arnold Brown; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 131, September 2002
Subjects: Labor relations--Analysis, Luddites--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Technological innovations--Social aspects
Listening to the Luddites: "The Overwhelming Impact of Technology...cause them to lose their jobs. Known as Luddites (named for Ned Lud, a deranged farmworker...we should not ignore or dismiss the Luddites, because sometimes they are right...
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Sometimes the Luddites Are Right
Magazine article by Arnold Brown; The Futurist, Vol. 35, September 2001
Subjects: Luddites--Political activity, Telecommunication--Analysis
SOMETIMES THE LUDDITES ARE RIGHT by Arnold Brown "Luddites" warn us about technological problems, such as the...wreaking. Its times the listen. Sometimes the Luddites are right. Not entirely, of course, but technophobes...
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Luddites or Skeptics?
Magazine article; Business Communications Review, Vol. 32, February 2002
Subjects: End users, Network switches, Packet switching--Usage
Luddites or Skeptics? Ive been having a ball in recent weeks...that convergence has been delayed because of those darn "LUDDITES"--buyers who believe that the good Lord intended that...of convergence should stop wasting time cursing out the Luddites, and concentrate instead on building what it will take...
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Setting Limits on Technology
Magazine article by Kirkpatrick Sale; The Nation, Vol. 260, June 5, 1995
Subjects: Luddites--History, Technology--Public opinion
...technology of two centuries ago, the Luddites. In the past decade or so they have dared...second Industrial Revolution, just as the Luddites challenged the first. Some are even using...violence to make their point. These neo-Luddites are more numerous today than one might...
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Are You a Luddite?
Magazine article; Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Vol. 10, Spring 2001
Subjects: Education--Social aspects, Educators--Behavior, Luddites--Evaluation, Technology--Social aspects
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You Luddites!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 22, 2008
You Luddites! Byline: Philip Nolan THE astonishing news about RT s plan to switch...DAB), which started in Germany a full 20 yearsago, the usual band of Luddites are sitting at home twiddling their dialstrying to find Mass on Sunday...
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One for the Luddites: How to Protect the World from Prosperity
Newspaper article by Helle Bering; The Washington Times, December 8, 1999
Subjects: World Trade Organization
One for the Luddites: How to protect the world from prosperity by Helle Bering...effective this anti-globalist coalition of socialists, coercive utopians and Luddites will turn out to be. (Democrats the protesters surely were not, representing...
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Compliance Technology: Friend or Foe?
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 26, 2004
...Technology: Friend or Foe? ATTITUDES towards technology can be divided, but not always for the most obvious reasons. Even the Luddites in the financial-services sector concede that only superior systems can deliver efficient controls in an increasingly complex...
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Born to Be Digital; Preserving the DNA of Civilization
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 10, 2006
Subjects: DNA
Born to Be Digital; Preserving the DNA of Civilization. Byline: Suzanne Fields, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Luddites of the world, awake. Pixels have been working magic while youve slept. Pixels have not replaced the word, but preserved it in a...
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On the Plus Side
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), December 3, 2006
...Im addicted to Sky Plus. There I said it. Some would argue such a dependency is a bad thing but I have no truck with those luddites. No longer do I struggle with video tapes or waste time deciding which game should be recorded. Gone are the days of missing...
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encyclopedia articles on: Luddites  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Luddites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUDDITES name given to bands of workingmen in the industrial centers of England who rioted between 1811 and 1816. The uprisings began...
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Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...last position he incurred great odium for his part in the governments policy of repression its strong measures against the Luddites , its periodic suspension of habeas corpus, and the Peterloo massacre . See biography by P. Ziegler (1965...
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Nottingham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Nottingham was the scene of Charles I unfurling his banner, marking the beginning of the civil war. Early in the 19th cent., Luddites were active in the city. The 17th-century castle overlooking the Trent River was burned in 1831 during Reform Bill riots...
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Strike
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Revolution occurred first, strikes of various sorts took place during the 19th cent.; these include the antimachine riots of the Luddites, the successful work stoppage in 1889 by the London dock workers, and the bitter and unsuccessful strikes by coal miners in...


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