Irregular rises in food prices provoked the Keelmen to riot in the port of Tyne in 1710 and tin miners to steal from granaries at Falmouth in 1727.
There was a rebellion in Northumberland and Durham in 1740, and an assault on Quaker corn dealers in 1756.
There was a rebellion in Northumberland and Durham in 1740, and an assault on Quaker corn dealers in 1756.
The movement was said to be named after Ned Ludd, an apprentice who allegedly smashed two stocking frames in 1779 and whose name had become emblematic of machine destroyers.
The name developed into the imaginary General Ludd or King Ludd, who was reputed to live in Sherwood Forest like Robin Hood. == Historical precedents == In 1779, Ned Ludd, a weaver from Anstey, near Leicester, England, is supposed to have broken two stocking frames in a fit of rage.
Act 1788. The Luddite movement emerged during the harsh economic climate of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw a rise of difficult working conditions in the new textile factories.
When the "Luddites" emerged in the 1810s, his identity was appropriated to become the folkloric character of Captain Ludd, also known as King Ludd or General Ludd, the Luddites' alleged leader and founder. The lower classes of the 18th century were not openly disloyal to the king or government, generally speaking, and violent action was rare because punishments were harsh.
The British economy suffered greatly in 1810 to 1812, especially in terms of high unemployment and inflation.
The Luddite movement began in Nottingham in England and culminated in a region-wide rebellion that lasted from 1811 to 1816.
The movement began in Arnold, Nottingham, on 11 March 1811 and spread rapidly throughout England over the following two years.
Their main areas of operation began in Nottinghamshire in November 1811, followed by the West Riding of Yorkshire in early 1812, and then Lancashire by March 1813.
The British economy suffered greatly in 1810 to 1812, especially in terms of high unemployment and inflation.
Their main areas of operation began in Nottinghamshire in November 1811, followed by the West Riding of Yorkshire in early 1812, and then Lancashire by March 1813.
industrial sabotage) a capital crime with the Frame Breaking Act of 1812.
Their main areas of operation began in Nottinghamshire in November 1811, followed by the West Riding of Yorkshire in early 1812, and then Lancashire by March 1813.
The Luddite movement began in Nottingham in England and culminated in a region-wide rebellion that lasted from 1811 to 1816.
Activists smashed Heathcote's lacemaking machine in Loughborough in 1816.
He and other industrialists had secret chambers constructed in their buildings that could be used as hiding places during an attack. In 1817, an unemployed Nottingham stockinger and probably ex-Luddite, named Jeremiah Brandreth led the Pentrich Rising.
Thomis argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of a very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, to undermine lower-paid competing workers, and to create solidarity among workers.
According to a manifesto drawn up by the Second Luddite Congress (April 1996; Barnesville, Ohio), neo-Luddism is "a leaderless movement of passive resistance to consumerism and the increasingly bizarre and frightening technologies of the Computer Age". The term "Luddite fallacy" is used by economists in reference to the fear that technological unemployment inevitably generates structural unemployment and is consequently macroeconomically injurious.
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