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The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching. The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of ...
The name is based on the historical legacy of the English Luddites, who were active between 1811 and 1817. [1] While the original Luddites were mostly concerned with the economic implications of improving technology in regard to industrialization, neo-Luddites tend to have a broader and more holistic distrust of technological improvement.
The Luddite movement began in Nottingham, England, and spread to the North West and Yorkshire between 1811 and 1816. Mill and factory owners took to shooting protesters and eventually the movement was suppressed by legal and military force, which included execution and penal transportation of accused and convicted Luddites.
Columnist Tim Rowland notes the death of Wegmans self-checkout app, plus an increase in firewood purchasing, welcome news to the nostalgic.
Edmund Cooper's alternative-history The Cloud Walker (1973) is set in a world where the Luddite ethos has given rise to a religious hierarchy which dominates English society and sets carefully prescribed limits on technology. A hammer—the tool supposedly used by Ned Ludd—is a religious symbol, and Ned Ludd is seen as a divine, messianic figure.
Despite never touching a phone until she left the Luddite community, Hershberger has turned technology into her full-time career. ... "They're not allowed to call me. I mean, they could call me ...
Kirkpatrick Sale (born June 27, 1937) is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.He has been described as having a "philosophy unified by decentralism" [1] and as being "a leader of the Neo-Luddites," [2] an "anti-globalization leftist," [3] and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."
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