Luddite Movement
The Luddites were a secret organization of English textile workers in the 19th century who engaged in a radical form of protest against the Industrial Revolution. They destroyed textile machinery, such as weaving looms, believing that the new technologies were replacing their jobs, reducing their wages, and threatening their way of life. The movement was most active between 1811 and 1816.
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