TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sale,Kirkpatrick
TI  - Rebels against the future: the Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution : lessons for the computer age 
SN  - 0201626780 :
AV  - 336 DA 535 S163r 1995
U1  - 942.081 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Reading, Mass.
PB  - Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
KW  - Luddites
KW  - Sabotage in the workplace
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Industrial revolution
KW  - Textile workers
KW  - Riots
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Computers
KW  - Industrièele revolutie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Opstanden
KW  - Textiles
KW  - Production
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - West Yorkshire (England)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-310) and index
N2  - This is the story of a bold uprising by the earliest victims of the first Industrial Revolution, viewed from the perspective of today's second Industrial Revolution, a vivid reminder that the current turmoil, driven by rapidly developing technologies and the global economy, is every bit as disruptive as the one created by the steam engine and laissez-faire. Rebels Against the Future is a work of careful scholarship, but it is also an exciting tale of people whose resistance to technology was so dramatic that their name has entered our vernacular. "Luddite" today refers to anyone unmoved by laptop computers and cellular phones, but this book reminds us that the Luddites were in fact real people, English working men who saw their livelihoods and homes, their communities and countryside, destroyed by the onrush of industrial capitalism
ER  -