An edition of Rebels against the future (1995)

Rebels against the future

the Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution : lessons for the computer age

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An edition of Rebels against the future (1995)

Rebels against the future

the Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution : lessons for the computer age

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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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Quartet Books
Language
English
Pages
320

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Originally published: Addison Wesley: 1995.

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London

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Pagination
320p. :
Number of pages
320

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OL20502669M
ISBN 10
0704380072
Library Thing
8462
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3004193

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