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Luddites logo #10101) Technology opponents
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Luddites logo #20418Machine breakers who wrecked looms and fired mills in protest at mechanisation and high food prices in 1812.
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Luddites logo #21217Luddites was a name given to rioters, who between 1811 and 1816 in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Nottingham, attributed the prevailing unemployment, poverty and widespread distress of the ordinary people to the introduction of machinery and industrialisation. During these years the counties were in a perpetual state of disturbance, and a great deal of...
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