Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution; Lessons for the Computer Age

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Addison-Wesley
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ISBN
0201407183
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Regular item
Year
1996
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The unique attack by Luddite workers upon a segment of the first industrial revolution, the manufacture of textiles, by destroying the new machines that would usurp their jobs, is covered in a chronological manner. The author constructs a list of principles from the Luddites' actions and the political-economic-legal response, which he applies to our present time in an attack on the computer and its intrusion into our lives and the world's environment and economics.