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Reference ideas for Luddite

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Merchant, Brian (September 2023). Szczerban, Michael (ed.). Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. New York City: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316487740.

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Modern Perspective[edit]

To get one modern perspective, try to find a book called Sabotage in the American Workplace, I think from AK Press. It's just about a hundred stories summarized from interviews with real people about why they had (and in only one case, had not) done things at workk that they weren't "supposed" to do, everything from breaking equipment to get a break, to stealing supplies, to spitting in the soup. --JohnAbbe

Kirkpatrick Sales' 1996 book "Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution" London: Quartet Books is worth a read. It concentrates on Luddites and touches on Neo-Luddites. For the insights of scientist looking at his work and the potential harm it may hold (esp. nanotechnology) take a look at: Joy, Bill (2001): "Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us" URL www.aaas.org/spp/rd/ch3.pdf (as printed in 'Wired' magazine). To examine other views on nanotechnology see ch4,5, and 6 within same site address. --RichardSeabury

Birth of the movement Section[edit]

The statement "Luddites objected primarily to the rising popularity of automated textile equipment, threatening the jobs and livelihoods of skilled workers as this technology allowed them to be replaced by cheaper and less skilled workers." does not seem to be supported by the source cited and if anything seems to contradict the source. Aramintywhitesell (talk) 13:28, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to "Luddism (movement)"?[edit]

The introductory sentence and the article focus on the movement and not on the individuals or the label, so maybe the article should be renamed accordingly. I could imagine reasons to keep the title as it is of course, for example "Luddite" is the most common word form in which we might see references to this movement. Adamw (talk) 11:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think for that reason it's best left as it is.--Jack Upland (talk) 04:10, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]