LABRST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Luddite, W. M. Keck Observatory, Ned Ludd
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Earlier waves of technology created lots of jobs. This time technology has a different impact. A luddite hates technology and won"t adapt to it. Craft workers: personal work, done in a small scale and provided to the community. Importance of skill: important for welfare of the whole community because they relied on those goods. Technology: one of the first machines being a steam powered sewing machine. Progress and disruption: these changes created disruption, ex. factories needed to become larger. Loss of control and leverage over: work, how work is done, and pay. Pointless resistance to progress: couldn"t handle or recognize this progress, luddites didn"t win, technology takes over. Halting progress: luddites fought to stop and slow down the advancement of machinery. Went into plants to break new machines pointless effort in the progress: if they one people would"ve suffered because technology brought more work.
