
The Luddites: The Workers Who Fought the Industrial Revolution
In early 19th-century England, a group of skilled textile workers known as the Luddites waged a dramatic rebellion—not against progress, but against displacement. Between 1811 and 1816, they sabotaged machinery in mills and factories across the Midlands and northern England. Their name came from the possibly mythical figure Ned Ludd, symbolizing the working-class resistance. Far…