A good fictionalization of the events surrounding technological change undermining the existing social order, at least in the late 19th century, is Dostoyevsky'

A good fictionalization of the events surrounding technological change undermining the existing social order, at least in the late 19th century, is Dostoyevsky's "The Devils". In that book they have the old landed gentry being slowly undermined by technology and new ideas from the west while these younger wild eyed engineers and intellectual radicals are growing up ominously in the next generation.