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	Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the movement can be seen as part of a rising tide of English working-class discontent in the early 19th century (see, for example, the Pentrich Rising of 1817, which was a general uprising, but led by an unemployed Nottingham stockinger, and probable ex-luddite, Jeremiah Brandreth).
		In recent years, the terms Luddism and Luddite or Neo-Luddism and Neo-Luddite have become synonymous with anyone who opposes the advance of technology due to the cultural changes that are associated with it.
		Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver School of Education
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luddism (961 words)

	Luddite History -- Kevin Binfield -- Murray State University
		That machinery alone was not the primary cause of Luddite anger is evident in the cessation of Luddism.
		Despite its brief run, Luddism ought to be understood as E. Thompson and J. and Barbara Hammond have argued, as an important step in the formation of a class consciousness and the development of labor unions in Britain.
		Both the appropriation of the term Luddism and the use of the term as an epithet are erroneous; to use the term other than in its historical context is to display ignorance of the particularity of historical conditions.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/luddites/LudditeHistory.htm (1349 words)

	Luddites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The primary aspect of Luddism is the belief that technological advancement is neither inevitable nor uncontrollable.
		Luddism suggests that a balanced, inclusive analysis of technologies be introduced to our society, in place of the ideology that is now dominant.
		I will not consider objections to Luddism that argue that it is immoral to destroy technologies, as I believe that I have made it clear that the Luddism I am suggesting is not a violent ideology and does not condone nor encourage destructive behavior.
	web.uvic.ca /philosophy/sophia/issues/sophia2002/jpetch.htm (5384 words)

	Luddism Paper
		Luddism has a long history and the term, ‘Luddite,’ has been adapted to those today who are against future and modern technology.
		Luddism spread to neighboring areas and revolts were against many new technologies.
		The idea of Luddism will be present as long as technology is evolving; and with the continuance of higher technology being developed, perhaps people will become more aware for themselves the seriousness of the issues proposed by Luddites.
	people.cornellcollege.edu /tdelaubenfels/courses/2001-2002/CSC9-131/shLuddismPaper.htm (1517 words)

	Cultural Aspects of Foods, Food Resource, Oregon State University
		I shall call it Culinary Luddism, after the Luddites, the English hand workers who in the nineteenth century smashed the machinery that was destroying their traditional way of life.
		When Culinary Luddism plays down how much your class constrained what you ate in the past, it can all too easily let us forget how modern food allows people more choices, not just of food but of what they do with their lives.
		To conclude, Culinary Luddism combines a nostalgia for a past that never was with a hankering for a system of food product that, not by accident but by its very nature, was labor intensive, socially repressive, and morally exploitative.
	food.oregonstate.edu /kelsey/laudan.html (4828 words)

	Interview-Kirkpatrick Sale
		A: I suppose we should expect to find Luddism occurring most ardently in those places which, like England in the early 19th century, are feeling the first disrupting impacts of an Industrial Revolution.
		A: There must there be a distinction, mustn't there, between an action like a computer virus that is meant as a prank, a hackeristic ego trip, and one with some more political purpose, directed at a larger system or corporation or the culture it thrives in.
		I do not have any confidence that the human species will survive for more than another 25 years, and if some remnants do, the best I can do is pray that they will have learned the lessons of industrial technology and not commit the same crimes again.
	www.primitivism.com /sale.htm (1643 words)

	The Achievements of `General Ludd' A Brief History of the Luddites Kirkpatrick Sale / The Ecologist, v. 29, n. 5, ...
		They rose up with such ferocity not against all technology, as they are sometimes accused of, but against technologies that they saw would crush their livelihoods, overturn the traditional modes of work and employment, and erase the customary bonds of household, community and marketplace that had endured for centuries.
		Northern Luddism exploded first in Yorkshire in 1812, with a factory burned in January, three workshops attacked and their machines broken in February, a dozen more workshops and two factories attacked in March with hammers, torches, pistols and muskets.
		Lancashire followed with a factory attack and the burning of a warehouse in February, another factory attack in March, and then in April no fewer than ten factories were set on, their machinery smashed, and two of them were burned to the ground, the most violent actions in the Luddites' whole campaign.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Luddite-History.htm (4669 words)

	Ludd's Choosy Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nevertheless, selective Luddism is not the result of any sophisticated calculus of risks, as is evident at your neighborhood McDonald's.
		This points to yet another possible explanatory principle of selective Luddism, which is that people seem to fear a low probability of immediate harm much more than a high probability of harm some day in the hazy and far-off future.
		In most of the country, for instance, vinyl windows and siding make sense, and because of their affordability are embraced by people who don't have a lot of money.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/99/01/viewpoint0199.asp?p=2 (1022 words)

	NEH 2002 Summer Seminar - Bill Holzapfel's Paper
		Throughout their account, the Hammonds are clear in their belief that Luddism was strictly a local movement that posed no serious threat to industrialization.
		He saw their dismissal of Luddism's wider aims as being as invalid as the most wild-eyed conspiracy tales that they rejected.
		In Thomis's view, Luddism was an ever-changing phenomenon, and the fact that it was an evolving movement rather than a clearly defined one has allowed scholars to read much into them.
	www.umassd.edu /ir/bholzapfel/bholzapfel.htm (3602 words)

	The New Luddism
		Luddism is putting the car in drive and trying to go in reverse.
		Luddism is only a wrench in the works, a pest -- not a bug in the system.
		When the unemployed textile workers smashed the steam looms and torched the mills, they were attacking only the symbols of advancement, not the thing itself.
	www.usu.edu /sanderso/multinet/lud2.html (741 words)

	I-resign.com - Articles & Opinion - In Defence of Luddism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When someone so well placed to understand the rate of progress of high technology is issuing such warnings, it's time to think again about where we're going.
		Luddism may be a healthy counterbalance to unrestricted research and development of technology that might be our undoing.
		In response, the most active form of modern Luddism is the position taken by Green activists against the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops.
	www.i-resign.com /uk/workinglife/viewarticle_26.asp (1341 words)

	luddism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		This is an area...apparently simple, covering the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism, but it needs to...phenomenon of machine breaking known as Luddism in 1811-12.
		Luddism, Homestead, and Hormel are well-known examples of this erosion...Homestead, the reorganization was internal to a firm; with Luddism and Hormel, labor in traditional centers was weakened by...
		This carried a strong whiff of Luddism, named after the early 19th-century attempt by English weavers...which were threatening their traditional jobs.
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=luddism (1299 words)

	RCCS: View Book Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Acknowledging that Luddites and Luddite violence has been met with practically universal disapproval, the authors find in Luddism an inspirational historical model for a resistance of capitalism and technology: "Luddism represented an attitude of resistance, of refusal by working people to be defined and dominated by capital, that was appropriate to the nineteenth century" (39).
		Many pages are spent detailing the widespread resistance to Luddism in Britain, citing examples from Harold Wilson of the Labor Party during the 1960s declaring "there is no room for Luddites in the Socialist Party" (42) to Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s calling all those who stood in the way of neo-liberalism "Luddites".
		Bill Gates is again invoked as the spokesperson for the technoculture, as he compares the technological transformations of the 1990s as akin to the invention of the printing press and the impact of the industrial revolution (66).
	www.com.washington.edu /rccs/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=138&BookID=119 (1500 words)

	Luddite - a Whatis.com definition - see also: luddism, neo-luddite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today, the term Luddite is reserved for a person who regards technology as causing more harm than good in society, and who behaves accordingly.
		Extreme forms of Luddism involving wanton destruction of technology are rare these days, especially in countries where the standard of living is high.
		Thomas R. Pynchon discusses the history of Luddism in his essay, "Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?"
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci883880,00.html (340 words)

	OpinioNet Contributed Commentary
		Middle East Luddism: Luddism was an antirational movement in Britain in the 19th century.
		And Oslo is about Luddism, where Israelis convince themselves that these appeasements buy goodwill and sympathy from the world, convincing the world that Israelis are not such evil, cussed, racist demons as the world has always thought.
		But one of the great achievements of 8 years of Oslo Luddism is that no one thinks any more that PLO violations of its Oslo commitments matter at all.
	www.conservativetruth.org /opinionet/archives2/ccsp/ccsp79.htm (1042 words)

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		Shop tools could be developed to enhance the work of machinists or they could be developed to de-skill workers and place greater control in the hands of management.
		The latter is the manner in which industry progressed and that is what Luddites protested and why Luddism became a popular movement.
		To understand technology one should have a sense of the historical context in which it grew and especially the decision-making that led to its growth.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/1896357008 (652 words)

	Lycos Search : Luddism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Is there any evidence of Luddism in modern, post-industrial societies...
		I research the historical and cultural geography of the Luddite outbreaks in 1812.
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	search.lycos.co.uk /cgi-bin/pursuit?query=Luddism&cat=loc&lyca=MI&matchmode=and&mtemp=main&etemp (226 words)

	MaxSpeak, You Listen!: THE VESTED INTERESTS AND LONG HOURS LUDDISM, part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And a change from one regime of time discipline to another is a technological innovation.
		Well there's this standard critique of Luddism that goes something like this: people who are afraid that labor-saving technology will eliminate jobs don't appreciate that technology creates more jobs than it destroys.
		Let's set aside the matter of whether or not the claim about technology creating jobs is true, the implication that is drawn from it is that there is no need for "job protection" measures.
	maxspeak.org /mt/archives/001488.html (637 words)

	Nature and Women in a Mexican Dystopia:
		On the contrary, as Sales points out, Luddism has surfaced in practically every other society to which the industrial system and culture were subsequently spread.
		Today, our world is undergoing a profound transformation, which, like the first Industrial Revolution, is driven by rapid technological and economic change and, also like the first one, has resulted in widespread social dislocations and environmental destruction (Sale 20).
		As a result, at the end of the twentieth century, Luddism has reappeared in the form of Neo-Luddism.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /ciberletras/v04/deFays.html (4162 words)

	ENG 492: Victorians and Cyberpunks: Class Web Site
		All three types of Luddism (original, modern, and the novel's) support the idea of privacy in different ways; the original Luddite movement maintained secrecy, modern Luddism is concerned with questions of control, and in the novel the main Luddite representative Walter Gerard was in hiding.
		Modern Luddism can be summed up by the explanation "Today's Luddites continue to raise moral and ethical arguments against the excesses of modern technology to the extent that our inventions and our technical systems have evolved to control us
		For this essay I will use material on Luddism from Martin Ryder and E. Thompson, as well as secondary sources for the idea of 'technocracy'(probably Jaques Ellul, Henri Lefevbre, or Alain Touraine) and Michel Foucault's ideas relating to observation from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
	maven.english.hawaii.edu /492/celka/celka5.html (318 words)

	Directory - Society: Lifestyle Choices: Luddism
		Luddism · cached · Offers resources and readings on the Neo-Luddite movement.
		I-resign.com: In Defence of Luddism · cached · Opinion piece by T.J. Snaith.
		On-line Luddism Index · iweb · cached · Articles by Bill Joy, Kirkpatrick Sale, John Zerzan, Langdon Winner and other Luddish theorists.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=515902 (214 words)

	Luddism in the New Millennium: An Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale
		Or people will say, "Well, I am no Luddite, but I can't reset the clock on my VCR," meaning I don't want to be thought of against technology, mind you.
		DK: The connotation is that Luddism is taking us back since it is human nature to progress, build on and go forth.
		KS: If you have a view like that, and I think it is probably the view of our culture, then you are a perfect slave of the modern mindset and a great asset for industrialism.
	yeoldeconsciousnessshoppe.com /art42.html (1799 words)

	Back Pages: Luddism is the way to go (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It all struck a deep chord in me, bringing back the late great British social historian, E. Thompson, who explained how the contemporary meaning of 'Luddite' has come down to us via "the enormous condescension of posterity" in his classic work, The Making of the English Working Class.
		we may see Luddism as a moment of transitional conflict.
		On the one hand, it looked backward to old customs and paternalistic legislation which could never be revived; on the other, it tried to revive ancient rights in order to establish new precedents.
	backpagesblog.com /weblog/archives/000024.html (819 words)

	/Society/Lifestyle_Choices/Luddism : ES Poetry & Writing Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Luddite Syndrome - An indie rock/punk/folk band formed by Neo-Luddites in Boston, Massachusetts..
		On-line Luddism Index - Articles by Bill Joy, Kirkpatrick Sale, John Zerzan, Langdon Winner and other Luddish theorists..
		I-resign.com: In Defence of Luddism - Opinion piece by T.J. Snaith.
	www.eliteskills.com /dmozsubmit/categ/Society/Lifestyle_Choices/Luddism (231 words)

	Luddite - TheBestLinks.com - Luddism, England, E. P. Thompson, Free market, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Luddite - TheBestLinks.com - Luddism, England, E. Thompson, Free market,...
		In recent years, the terms Luddism and Luddite or Neo-Luddism and Neo-Luddite have become synonymous with anyone who opposes the advance of industrial technology.
		Thompson's view of Luddism in The Making of the English Working Class
	www.thebestlinks.com /Luddism.html (980 words)

	Luddism
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		On-line Luddism Index - Articles by Bill Joy, Kirkpatrick Sale, John Zerzan, Langdon Winner and others.
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	[extropy-chat] Popular Luddism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wishing doesn't make bad stuff go away, neither for them nor for us.
		I was talking to a historian who studied the original Luddism.
		One of the things he discovered was that they actually targeted just the machines that replaced laborers, not the ones that just made laborers' jobs easier or more productive/efficient.
	lists.extropy.org /pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-May/006485.html (328 words)

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