luddites

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Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution (See 455)
early nineteenth-century workmen who destroyed labor-savings machinery rather than see it take over their jobs
Workers in Britain (1810–1820) who responded to replacement of human labor by machines during the Industrial Revolution by attempting to destroy the machines; named after a mythical leader, Ned Ludd (p 706)
Machine breakers who wrecked looms and fired mills in protest at mechanisation and high food prices in 1812
early nineteenth-century workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery rather than see it taking over their jobs
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