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	Pynchon - Essays: "Is it OK to be a Luddite?"
		Luddites had, in this view, come to be imagined as the counter-revolutionaries of that "Industrial Revolution" which their modern versions have "never tried, wanted, or been able to understand."
		To people who were writing science fiction in the 50's, none of this was much of a surprise, though modern Luddite imaginations have yet to come up with any countercritter Bad and Big enough, even in the most irresponsible of fictions, to begin to compare with what would happen in a nuclear war.
		The word "Luddite" continues to be applied with contempt to anyone with doubts about technology, especially the nuclear kind.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html (3102 words)

	Luddite Sociology
		The original Luddites claimed to be led by one Ned Ludd (also known as "King Ludd", "General Ludd" or "Captain Ludd") who is believed to have destroyed two large stocking framesthat produced inexpensive stockings undercutting those produced by skilled knitters, and whose signature appears on a "workers' manifesto" of the time.
		Luddites are often characterised, and indeed their name has to some become synonymous with, people opposed to all change—in particular technological change such as that which was sweeping through the weavingshops in the industrial heartland of England.
		He shows that the Luddites were not opposed to new technology, but rather to the abolition of set prices and therefore also to the introduction of what we would today call the free market.
	www.lumrix.com /medical/sociology/luddite.html (1038 words)

	What is a Luddite?
		Luddites were members of a social movement of textile workers in England during the early 1800s.
		The Luddite movement resulted in the destruction of many wool and cotton mills, quickly attracting the attention of the authorities, who dispatched many British soldiers to counteract the Luddites.
		The Luddite's mythical leader was Ned Ludd, or "General Ludd," allegedly one of the first Luddites, though his actual existence is disputed.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-a-luddite.htm (336 words)

	Is There a Legitimate 'Luddite' Response to Technology in the Social Studies?
		Thus like their forbearers, present-day Luddites would not simply or single-mindedly be against technology itself (the machines, the Internet, hypertext, etc.) but rather would want to address the question of what it is that these kinds of technologies are doing to us.
		It as a Luddite that one might reply that increasing the role of technology does not answer these questions, and indeed to embrace technology uncritically and too enthusiastically may indeed serve to deepen the terms of disenchantment identified by Taylor and others.
		It is not, as a modern-day Luddite might respond, that technology is unable to serve some function in achieving certain goals of the social studies-goals such as enhancing communication, for example.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_35_2/legitimate_luddite.htm (4378 words)

	The National Archives Learning Curve \| Power, Politics and Protest \| Luddites
		The Luddites were very effective, and some of their biggest actions involved as many as a hundred men, but there were relatively few arrests and executions.
		The Luddites were not the first group of workers to face problems at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
		Luddites were protesting against changes they thought would make their lives much worse, changes that were part of a new market system.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /politics/g3 (457 words)

	Luddism
		The original Luddite revolt occurred in 1811, an action against the English Textile factories that displaced craftsmen in favor of machines.
		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 rather than to serve us and to the extent that such leviathans can threaten our essential humanity.
		Thomas Pynchon Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html (534 words)

	The Luddite Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Luddites were men who took the name of a (perhaps) mythical individual, Ned Ludd who was reputed to live in Sherwood Forest.
		As many as forty Luddites were killed in action, twenty-four were executed, thirty-four were transported to Australia and twenty-four were imprisoned.
		Politically, the actions of the Luddites brought the idea of having a society based on industrialization into the eyes of the public and open to debate.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews3/luddite.htm (660 words)

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		The Luddite uprisings appeared and were based in the Midlands--Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, and the Northlands--Yorkshire, Lancishire, Cheshire.
		The Luddite members would gather, in the darkness of the night, in the surrounding forests of the towns and villages that they attacked.
		If someone was a Luddite the proper response was for them to gesture likewise except they would do it with their left hand and eye.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/luddites.html (2500 words)

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		The new Luddites are not fighting for their lives as their predecessors were, but for a misguided concept that the upcoming technology will be this world's downfall.
		The old Luddites fought for their families and their way of life, he fights for against the idea of the machines themselves.
		The old Luddites were in a period when the technology was thrown at them very quickly and left them little time to adjust.
	www.history.rochester.edu /class/unabomber/stramer.htm (516 words)

	The Luddites
		In February and March, 1812, factories were attacked by Luddites in Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield and Leeds.
		Despite a passionate speech by Lord Byron in the House of Lords, Parliament passed the Frame Breaking Act that enabled people convicted of machine-breaking to be sentenced to death.
		The Luddites failed in gain entry and by the time they left, two of the croppers had been mortally wounded.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRluddites.htm (1598 words)

	Luddite Lawmakers & Other Officials: Politicians Who Dodged Electronic Donor Disclosure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Webster defines “Luddite” as a pejorative term for people who are opposed in principle to technological change.
		Luddites hail from both major political parties, with the Democrats claiming 17 of them and the Republicans claiming 19 more.
		The last two bastions of Luddite officials offer a sad commentary on the state of the Lone Star State, since these officials held offices that reasonably might be expected to require a minimal level of computer literacy.
	www.tpj.org /docs/2001/05/reports/luddites/luddites.html (1261 words)

	Luddite - a Whatis.com definition
		A Luddite is a person who fears or loathes technology, especially new forms of technology that threaten existing jobs.
		The term Luddite is derived from Ludd's surname.
		Today, the term Luddite is reserved for a person who regards technology as causing more harm than good in society, and who behaves accordingly.
	searchdomino.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,294236,sid4_gci883880,00.html (343 words)

	The Achievements of `General Ludd' A Brief History of the Luddites Kirkpatrick Sale / The Ecologist, v. 29, n. 5, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the attack on the Rawfolds mill at least four Luddites were shot and killed (two of them buried in the graveyard of the church of the Reverend Luddite plotters, as seen by an 1816 engraving.
		But it proved to be less than that; in fact more like the dying twitch of a movement that had made its statement of desperation and misery for six months and found that it fell entirely on deaf ears, with no response from the powers of the land except force and repression.
		As a tactic, the Luddites discovered, it is extremely effective, up to a point, but extremely limited, and the point at which it calls down the potent wrath of authority and turns off the allegiance of neighbours is pretty quickly reached.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Luddite-History.htm (4669 words)

	Luddite Clone --- Official Relapse Records Band Page
		LUDDITE CLONE sought to create a unique style that retained the intensity of the aforementioned artists while adding nuances from their other realms of musical interest.
		In the meantime, LUDDITE CLONE are currently composing new material for their debut full-length and planning live jaunts throughout the Northeast over the coming months.
		Luddite Clone is comprised of separate individuals expressing themselves through various audible (and sometimes visual) forms of communication that form music.
	www.relapse.com /artist/artist.aspx?ArtistID=10062 (495 words)

	Luddite Definition: TechEncyclopedia from TechWeb
		Luddite comes from Englishman Ned Lud, who rose up against his employer in the late 1700s.
		Subsequently, "Luddites" emerged in other companies to protest and even destroy new machinery that would put them out of a job.
		A neo-Luddite is a Luddite in the Internet age.
	www.techweb.com /encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=Luddite (148 words)

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		Armed with hatchets, pikes (similar to spears), and guns, the Luddites, swarmed in front of the four-story factory.
		Unlike in the past, the slacker Luddite is more likely to be a bureaucrat, technocrat, or service worker, and less likely to be a laborer.
		A short time later, 14 other Yorkshire Luddites were tried and hanged for attacks on factories and machine breaking.
	www.lycos.com /info/luddite.html (597 words)

	Luddite Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Luddites were factory workers in England during the late 19th century, who followed the example of their legendary hero, Nedd Ludd, in resisting the mechanization imposed upon them by the Industrial Revolution.
		Simply speaking, a cognitive minority is a group of people who hold a belief or beliefs that are not generally accepted in the culture at large.
		Luddites definitely qualify as a cognitive minority, with their repudiation of the domination of technology in our culture.
	www.geocities.com /NapaValley/1517/ludlinks.html (497 words)

	Luddite PACs and Candidates: Large Luddite PACs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Four of these top five Luddites were Republican PACs, led by the Texas Republican Party PAC, which raised a whopping $968,993.
		The fifth top Luddite PAC was the Texas Consumer Finance Association, members of which make high-interest “signature loans” to the working poor.
		Leading the Luddite Construction PACs, the Northside Bond Committee raised $67,400 from construction interests for a 2001 initiative to build $495 million in school infrastructure projects.
	www.tpj.org /docs/2002/10/reports/luddites02/page7.html (225 words)

	Hacking The Law: The Luddite's Lawyer and the Circumvention of Progress
		The Luddite cannot use that technology on one hand, and then claim protection under the law the consortium passed to protect that work.
		Perhaps before the Luddite wrote, all who owned copyrights might have consented, but that is not the case today.
		But it is clear that the Congress passed this law fully cognizant of the complaints of technologists, quite similar to the defendants here, that this law would stunt and diminish the availability of important technologies disapproved of by a copyright owner.
	www.mucow.com /lawhacker/archives/000018.html (1309 words)

	Welcome to Luddite Industries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Luddite Industries™ began like any small start-up: a brilliant idea, a team of passionate leaders, and a product that was more of a theory than a reality.
		Ernest Buckman, operating out of his garage with some old college friends, built the first wooden computer, an Atari 2600 game system refurbished with stained Mahogany, in 1979 and sold it to a local business owner for a mere 24 dollars.
		With sound foundations in craftsmanship, hi-tech know-how, and progressive philosophies, Luddite has dared to take technology into the realm of the natural world.
	www.luddite.com /luddite/html/history.html (269 words)

	Luddites in Marsden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Its owner, William Horsfall, had barricaded his mill and mounted a cannon to deter Luddites, but he was murdered by them on Crosland Moor in 1812, on his way home from Huddersfield.
		The Luddites were an organised group of workers in the textile industry, who destroyed the machinery that was taking their livelihoods.
		The word 'luddite' has come to be used to describe a mindless opposition to change, particularly technological change.
	www.marsdenhistory.co.uk /luddites.html (477 words)

	Luddite - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		What the Luddites were fighting against, more broadly...and it was this alien order that the Luddites were seeking to resist.
		They were...her own knowledge of the area, in the Luddite risings in the Yorkshire woollen district...was a negative reason for choosing the Luddite period; a more positive reason was that...
		The Luddites connect Thomas Pynchon "Vineland" and...Pynchons article "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?" (1984), which spells out a brief history...
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=Luddite (1310 words)

	Urban Dictionary: luddite
		luddite dumbass global village moron village idiot überidiot
		Luddite durring the industrial revolution who beleived machines would cause workers wages to be decreased and ended up burning a number of factories in protest
		A luddite generally claims things were "just fine" back in the day, and refuses to replace/update failing equipment/software/comput ers on the basis that they were just fine 10 years ago.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=luddite (161 words)

	Luddite Summary
		Luddite and Luddism are terms of both derision and praise.
		The Luddites were a social movement of English workers in the early 1800s who protested — often by destroying textile machines — against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs.
		The Luddites consisted of many of these jobless men and engaged in vandalizing the very machines that made their skills obsolete.
	www.bookrags.com /Luddite (285 words)

	"On Being a Luddite
		A Luddite was originally a follower of a guy named Ludd, or Luddy or something, who protested the introduction of industrial machines that took the place of people in England.
		He probably meant boring to the art viewer, rather than to the artist, but the note itself hit very close to home for me.Change is exciting to me, as long as I'm the one doing it.
		I'm more of a Luddite when someone else is doing it, saying, "can't they just leave well enough alone?" But if I'm the one doing it, it's exciting.
	fotog.net /writing/w54.htm (2009 words)

	Luddite — OpenPlans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Luddites were a social movement of English workers in the early 1800s who protested, often by destroying textile machines, against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs.
		To answer the question above, yes. In American English, "luddite" has come to mean anyone who is strongly suspicious of or averse to technology, usually computers.
		The term "Luddite" was recently used in the title of a forum discussion on nanotechology on the website futuremonitor.com.
	www.openplans.org /projects/sandbox/luddite (108 words)

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