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Updated: May 10, 2025
It'll all slip through his fingers." "On the contrary, papa, he will increase the practice. See how he has been called in by the Chettams and Casaubons." "I hope he knows I shan't give anything with this disappointment about Fred, and Parliament going to be dissolved, and machine-breaking everywhere, and an election coming on " "Dear papa! what can that have to do with my marriage?"
Riots, insurrections, machine-breaking, incendiarism, pillage, and even murder were then more truly expressive of the attitude of certain sections of the brutalized poor toward the society which had disinherited them than most of us to-day realize.
At a much more recent period new inventions have had to encounter serious rioting and machine-breaking fury. Kay of the fly-shuttle, Hargreaves of the spinning-jenny, and Arkwright of the spinning-frame, all had to fly from Lancashire, glad to escape with their lives. Indeed, says Mr.
In the winter of 1811 the terrible pressure of this transition from handicraft to machinery was seen in the Luddite, or machine-breaking, riots which broke out over the northern and midland counties; and which were only suppressed by military force.
"I am a close neighbor of yours, my good friends you've known me on the bench a good while I've always gone a good deal into public questions machinery, now, and machine-breaking you're many of you concerned with machinery, and I've been going into that lately.
The principles and methods of trade unionism were being worked out on the actual battlefield, amid riots, strikes, machine-breaking, and incendiarism. Instinctively the masses were associating for mutual protection and, almost unconsciously, working out by themselves programs of action.
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