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Again, the people who worked on Captain Swing
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were George Rudé and Eric Hobsbawm.
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How do I put this?
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There was a real person called Ned Ludd
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in about 1816-17 in England.
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The English word Luddite is someone who's a machine breaker.
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Luddism is machine breaking. You break machines
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because machines are putting you out of work.
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You're a handloom weaver.
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There are famous cases in Silesia in Germany.
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Then machines for glassworks and then later in the century,
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things I talked about last time, were putting them out of work.