HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Luddites
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Methodism
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urbanization
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John Wesley
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Luddites have been described as people violently opposed to technological change and the riots put down to the introduction of new machinery in the wool industry. Luddites were protesting against changes they thought would make their lives much worse, changes that were part of a new market system.
Detailed explanation-2: -Machine-breaking Luddites attacked and burned factories, and in some cases they even exchanged gunfire with company guards and soldiers.
Detailed explanation-3: -DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: The original Luddites are famous for smashing machines with sledgehammers during the Industrial Revolution. JACOB GOLDSTEIN, BYLINE: But they didn’t start out angry. The people who would become the Luddites worked in the cloth business.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Luddites were a group of early 19th century textile workers in Great Britain who destroyed textile machines to protest their loss of work and fair payment. They were not against progress and innovation, but against unfair labor practices.