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

1st pbk. ed.
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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

1st pbk. ed.
  • 3 Want to read

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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Language
English
Pages
320

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Edition Notes

"With a new preface by the author"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-310) and index.

Published in
Reading, Mass

Classifications

Library of Congress
DA535 .S23 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
320 p. :
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22947307M
Internet Archive
rebelsagainstfut0000sale
ISBN 10
0201407183
OCLC/WorldCat
34529024
Library Thing
8462
Goodreads
864008

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