The first popular history of the rebellion against technology that still reverberates today.

In this book, literary scholar Kevin Binfield collects a broad range of complete texts written by Luddites or their sympathizers from 1811 to 1816, adding detailed notes on each and organizing them according to the three major regions of ...

These movements came to be known as Luddism. It is this subject area that David F Noble goes to immediately in order to provide a detailed analysis of the effect of automation in its mechanized and computerized forms.

This book addresses the question of what it might mean today to be a Luddite--that is, to take a stand against technology.

Based on Lord Byron's speech in the House of Lords, February 27th, 1812.

This work aims to place Luddism within the context of machine-breaking as a long-established practice of industrial relations, and to assess its role within the many movements of social protest that were occurring in this period.