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I bet weavers fought like hell against textile industrialization. I'm not an historian, but there must have been such a conflict, and given the scale of it I be
by javajosh 5y ago
I bet weavers fought like hell against textile industrialization. I'm not an historian, but there must have been such a conflict, and given the scale of it I bet it was bloody. Industrialization freed them from this toil, but at the cost of centralizing the means of production. It is a strange thing, progress.
- 3pt14159 5y agoI'm 90% sure you're telling a subtle joke, but on the off chance you're not "luddite" is worth a Google.
- Someone 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite: “The Luddites were a secret oath-based organisation of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery”
- wongarsu 5y agoThe Luddites were a movement of British textile workers who fought industrialization, at first with sabotage then with open rebellion that was violently put down [1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
- avgcorrection 5y ago> It is a strange thing, progress. That time is correlated with progress is a very political-liberal idea, to no one’s surprise.