Luddite – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Luddite
n.
member of a worker's group in England during the 19th century that opposed the industrial revolution and destroyed the machinery because they felt it threatened their income
Luddite
The
Luddites were 19th-century
English textile workers (or self-employed weavers who feared the end of their trade) who protested against newly developed labour-economizing technologies, primarily between 1811 and 1816. The
stocking frames,
spinning frames and
power looms introduced during the
Industrial Revolution threatened to replace them with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work. The Luddite movement culminated in a region-wide rebellion in Northwestern England that required a massive deployment of military force to suppress.
Luddite
Noun
1. any opponent of technological progress
(hypernym) adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
2. one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
(hypernym) workman, working man, working person
Luddite
(n.)
One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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