Luddites and Luddism
Luddite and Luddism are terms of both derision and praise. Depending on context, they have been used to indicate either mindless opposition to or critical assessment of technology...
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In the following excerpt, Darvall considers why so little attention was given to the Luddite Rebellion and other similar worker uprisings, noting that while those of the middle and lower classes sympa...
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In the following excerpt, Thomis discusses the social and political context of the Luddite Rebellion and attempts to define exactly who the Luddites were and what they sought to achieve. He also exami...
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In the following essay, Sale provides background on the Luddite revolt and other events in the workers' movement against machines. He then discusses nineteenth-century responses by British inte...
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In the following excerpt, Bailey describes the industrial unrest that took place in several regions in the early nineteenth century and examines the responses to the troubles by manufacturers, the gov...
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In the following essay, Fox discusses the historical context of the Luddite revolt.
The word Luddite is newly trendy. It finds its way into articles and essays at the elite edge of media consumptio...
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In the following excerpt, Vicinus explores the response of weavers to the mechanization of their trade as described in popular working-class broadside literature, which the critic says protested again...
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In the following excerpt, Webb considers the historical accuracy of Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley.
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The importance of the years 1812-13 to Charlotte Brontë is of course sig...
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In the following excerpt, Zlotnick examines how Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley represents history, noting the author's ambivalent treatment of the Luddites. The critic asserts t...
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In the following essay, Fox illustrates how the Romantic poets protested against industrialization while sympathizing with Luddites and other workers displaced by emerging technology.
There is an i...
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The Luddites
In the year 1812 there was a series of violent disturbances in Yorkshire, when new machines were introduced into the woolen industry. The new developments in technology meant that many w...
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Environmentalism: So global-warming alarmists now want to limit our use of toilet paper. What's next, one-room shacks with bamboo fences? Don't laugh. That's also on their list of recommendations.S...
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Question 1 of 10:Arising in the 18th Century, the Industrial Revolution was kickstarted by which burgeoning British industry?Coal
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Each year when the Emmys are announced, I’m surprised by how little conversation they inspire. No Emmy pools; no heated dinner-party debates over best actor in a drama; no party plans made f...
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Energy: President Bush outlined a plan Monday to cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil. His goal is to cut use of imported oil 20% in 10 years. But without a comprehensive approach, we'll never get th...
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Environmentalism: Even green-friendly media are daring to ask if higher temps are really just part of a natural cycle that could peak before all the forecast doom and gloom. Has Al Gore oversold ma...
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“I want my Web TV!†Could it be the catchphrase of the late aughts?
Fred Seibert and Herb Scannell hope so. Mr. Seibert, who helped bring the still-quoted MTV catc...
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No one but the most rabid of Luddites will dismiss the advantages that advances in technology have brought to the realm of home entertainment, but now that it’s possible to have a cinematic e...
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Is Target missing the mark when it comes to online commerce?Target TGT -- the national retailer known for its red bull's-eye logo, hip commercials and bargain-chic merchandise -- is falling behind ...
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While I was trying to decide how I would introduce my customary list of the past year’s achievements and non-achievements, I consulted what I wrote last year—and I was struck by how app...
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Luddites and Luddism
Critical Essay by Frank Ongley Darvall
The Luddites
The March Of The New Luddites
