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The Luddites, a group of anti-technology workers, united under the name “ Ludd ” in March 1811, removing key components from knitting frames, raiding houses for supplies, and petitioning for trade rights while threatening greater violence.
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Luddites and group
For example, a group of English workers known as Luddites formed to protest against industrialisation and sometimes sabotaged factories.
He was the lyricist and vocalist in the Ontario band, Luddites, and before that he collaborated with experimental rock group The Mandan Massacre.
Around this time, the group known as Luddites began industrial action, by smashing industrial machines developed for use in the textile industries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
On 25 March 1812 a group of Luddites burned Rowe & Dunscough's Westhoughton Mill, in one of the first terrorist acts in Britain.
For example, a group of English workers known as Luddites formed to protest against industrialisation and sometimes sabotaged factories.
Luddites and anti-technology
For example, the anti-technology 19th century Luddites movement or the modern movement opposing the spread of the genetically modified food could be seen as conservative movements in that they aimed to fight specific technological changes.
Luddites and name
Ned Ludd or Ned Lud, possibly born Ned Ludlam or Edward Ludlam, is the person from whom the Luddites took their name.
By 1812, the organized frame-breakers who became known as the Luddites had begun using the name King Ludd or Captain Dick for their mythical leader.
The name Enoch was used for the hammers that the Luddites used to smash them.
Its name is based on the historical legacy of the British Luddites, who were active between 1811 and 1816.
Luddites and Ludd
These attackers became known as Luddites, supposedly followers of Ned Ludd, a folklore figure.
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.
* Ned Ludd, leader of the 19th-century Luddites
Luddites and March
* March 15 – Luddites attack the wool processing factory of Frank Vickerman in West Yorkshire.
Luddites and from
On 20 April 1812, a " large crowd of riotous individuals " compelled local retailers to sell foods at a loss, whilst on the same day Luddites numbering in their thousands, many of whom were from Oldham, attacked a cotton mill in nearby Middleton.
There was resistance to the implementation of new textile machinery and the factory system when Luddites, who blamed the new factories for depriving weavers from earning a living in a time of widespread hunger and poverty, destroyed Fosters Mill.
After the local governments were destroyed due to rebellions similar to the one led by John Farson in Roland's own Gilead, Luddites began defending their city from roving gangs (" harriers ") who pillaged any village they came across.
Luddites and frames
" Some time before perfecting his invention, which he patented in 1809, he removed to Loughborough, where he entered into partnership with Charles Lacy, a Nottingham manufacturer ; but in 1816 their factory was attacked by former Luddites, thought to be in the pay of the lacemakers of Nottingham, and their 55 lace frames were destroyed.
Luddites and for
With the advent of the industrial revolution, thinkers such as Proudhon and Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use, while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines.
The Luddites began destroying mills and machinery in response ; one of the most notorious attacks was on Cartwright — a Huddersfield mill-owner, who had a reputation for cruelty — and his Rawfords Mill.
He distinguished himself by his defence of the Luddites ; but his most brilliant appearance was as one of the counsel for Queen Caroline.
This inn was a meeting place for Luddites, the machine wreckers, in the early 19th century.
We get an explanation for the Grayson rivalry with Masada: Long ago, an extremist faction called " the Faithful " left Grayson ( founded by religious Luddites ) after a civil war and settled on Masada.
Luddites and .
The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government took drastic measures using the militia or army to protect industry.
The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who violently protested against the machinery introduced during the Industrial Revolution that made it possible to replace them with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work.
Luddites and radical labor unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defense and direct action against unfair working conditions.
Inspired by the Luddites, primitivists rekindle an anti-technological / industrial direct action orientation.
Although green anarchism develops themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, when primitivism emerged it was influenced more directly by the works of theorists such as the Frankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse ; anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee ; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder.
The modern-day Luddites are opposed by Oswald Cabal ( Massey again ), the head of the governing council and great grandson of John Cabal.
The Luddites used the slogan " Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them.
In his book Rebels Against the Future, Kirkpatrick Sale describes how a large army platoon was stationed at Huddersfield to deal with Luddites ; at its peak, there were around a thousand soldiers in Huddersfield and only ten thousand civilians.
In response, the Luddites began to focus their attacks on nearby towns and villages, which were less well-protected ; the largest act of damage that they ever did was the complete destruction of Foster's Mill at Horbury — a village which is about east of Huddersfield.
William Horsfall, a mill-owner and a passionate prosecutor of Luddites, was killed in 1812.
Several societal groups may be considered technophobic, most recognizable are the Luddites.
The Luddites were a social movement of British artisans in the 19th century who organized in opposition to technological advances in the textile industry.
" Luddites and Luddism.
group and anti-technology
To deal with the Yakuza assassin, Molly leads Johnny to the Lo Teks, a group of anti-technology outcasts who live in a suspended hideout near the top of the geodesic domes covering the Sprawl.
group and workers
If coffee is sold at the cafeteria, let a few workers in each department get it for the whole group.
Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.
While Fascism claimed that corporatism gave workers power alongside employer in workplaces in reality the concept of " Fuhrerprinzip " gave employers and State-appointed workplace managers absolute control over the workplace as dictated by the State-owned German Labor Front ; based on the Social Darwinist ideology that certain individuals are " gifted " and " born to rule ", employers thought to be part of that group.
On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.
Little was done to improve the living standards of the low-paid workers in plantation agriculture, although this group steadily declined as a proportion of the workforce.
The federal foreman referred to the group as " Hoosiers " meaning they were workers that Robert Hoosier had allowed to join the national work crew.
Individual and group goals when workers are interdependent.
Workers ' solidarity means that anarcho-syndicalists believe all workers — no matter their race, gender, or ethnic group — are in a similar situation in regard to their boss ( class consciousness ).
This didn't work with every triplet in the same group, but worked often enough to allow later workers to create generalizations.
Members of a profession have also been defined as " workers whose qualities of detachment, autonomy, and group allegiance are more extensive than those found among other groups ... their attributes include a high degree of systematic knowledge ; strong community orientation and loyalty ; self-regulation ; and a system of rewards defined and administered by the community of workers.
The usual translation into English is the Red Army Faction ; however, the founders wanted it to not reflect a splinter group but rather an embryonic militant unit that was embedded in or part of a wider communist workers ' movement.
: Angered towards the recent hiring of African-American workers, a group of between 80 and 100 Arab laborers attack a group of African-American workers near the Freeman & Hammond brick yard with numerous men injured on both sides .< ref > Race Riots In Newburg.
If employers were to choose to maintain operations in South Korea, there is a possibility that they might incur higher costs in retraining or upgrading the skills of this group of middle-age workers.
Some workers have even placed xenarthrans outside of placentals as a separate group Paratheria.
In 2007 it launched a campaign alongside the anti-capitalist group No Sweat which attempts to replicate some of the successes of the US IWW's organising drives amongst Starbucks workers.
The Mattachine Society was named by Harry Hay at the suggestion of James Gruber, inspired by a French medieval and renaissance masque group he had studied while preparing a course on the history of popular music for a workers ' education project.
Interest group representations with mandatory membership ( e. g., for workers, businesspeople, farmers etc.
As such, many workers doubt that they are a real group.
Once Cameron arrived in Hollywood, he quickly realized that a group of scientists was not that commercial and changed it to a group of blue collar workers.
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