Rebels against the future
the Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution : lessons for the computer age
1st pbk. ed.
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Publication
1996 - Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
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- Internet Archiverebelsagainstfut0000sale
- ISBN-100201407183
- ISBN-139780201407181
- LibraryThing8462
- Goodreads864008
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- OCLC Control Number34529024
- Better World Books9780201407181
- Open LibraryOL22947307M
Classifications
- LCCDA535 .S23 1996
- DDC942.081
Description
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.
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