History of Luddite

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The Luddites were a group of English workers in the early 1800s who protested (often by destroying machines) the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs.

The Luddites were a group of English workers in the early 1800s who protested the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs, often by destroying machines.

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See also Theodore Kaczynski, Unabomber, Bill Joy

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	Revision 10 . . December 11, 2001 6:29 am by Lee Daniel Crocker [I'm not fond of Bill Joy's silly "relinquishment" arguments either, but it hardly justifies associating him with real Luddites.]
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