The Luddites were 19th century English textile workers who destroyed machinery threatening their craft and livelihoods. Historians call their tactics “collective bargaining by riot”.

In response, we are seeing a growing surge of attempts to wrest back control of technology for democratic ends. This is a ...

They were called riots by the right-wing press of the day which portrayed ... way that industrialisation was being used to throw skilled workers on the scrapheap as Luddites — still a term of abuse ...

To resist this performance politics, characterised by shock-and-awe tactics through social media, we must organise and mobilise in different spaces rather than merely engaging angrily on social media ...

The original Luddites The Luddites were 19th century English textile workers who destroyed machinery threatening their craft and livelihoods. Historians call their tactics “collective bargaining by ...