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The 13 pages that link to Luddite, each with the reason it gives.

• Technological determinismRelated: Their protests challenge portrayals of resistance as futile opposition to inevitable progress.

• Factory systemRelated: Their resistance reflected conflicts over machines, wages, and control of skilled work.

• Norbert WienerCompared with: Wiener invoked the Luddites when warning that workers might resist automation that threatened their livelihoods.

• Spinning jennyRelated: The jenny became associated with disputes over machinery, employment, and workers’ control.

• LoomRelated: Textile machinery, including powered looms, became a focus of worker resistance.

• TechnologyRelated: Luddite resistance shows that technological change has long provoked social conflict.

• Regency eraBroader topic: Luddite resistance made the social costs of industrial change visible.

• Spinning frameRelated: The spread of textile machinery, including spinning frames, formed part of the upheaval surrounding these protests.

• Technology and societyRelated: Their protests illustrate that resistance often targets social consequences, not machines alone.

• IndustrialisationRelated: Their resistance made visible conflicts over wages, skill, and control of mechanised work.

• Spencer PercevalBroader topic: Luddite unrest challenged the government during Perceval’s premiership.

• History of the steam engineRelated: Their resistance reflects the social disruption accompanying mechanized production.

• TechnophobiaBroader topic: The Luddites are often invoked as an early symbol of resistance to technological change.