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	Luddites
JohnWaterman
6-24-2008 2:49 PM
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6-24-2008 3:05 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9be89f4f-8adb-44ca-ac1c-bdca0d232210/50F534F8-89F0-4BCB-8E49-0EA729D595E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luddite&oldid=219102563" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luddite&oldid=219102563" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luddite&oldid=219102563"><P>The <B>Luddites</B> were a <A title="Social movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movement">social movement</A> of <A title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland">British</A> <A title="Textile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile">textile</A> artisans in the early <A title="Nineteenth century" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_century">nineteenth century</A> who protested – often by destroying mechanized looms – against the changes produced by the <A title="Industrial Revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution">Industrial Revolution</A>, which they felt threatened their livelihood.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/luddo.htm" href="http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/luddo.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cottontimes.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/luddo.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cottontimes.co.uk/img/CC6845FB-C88B-4F19-B4F7-C472301C087C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/luddo.htm">It was early in 1811 that Nottingham stocking manufacturers began to receive
      letters signed by "General Ned Ludd and his Army of Redressers."  Ludd
      probably did not exist, although there is some suggestion that the name was derived from that of a Leicestershire farm labourer who had destroyed some stocking frames about 1782</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luddite&oldid=219102563" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luddite&oldid=219102563" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luddite&oldid=219102563">For a short time the movement was so strong that it clashed in battles with the <A title="British Army" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army">British Army</A>. Measures taken by the government included a mass trial at <A title="York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York">York</A> in 1812 that resulted in many <A title="Execution" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution">executions</A> and <A title="Penal transportation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation">penal transportation</A></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Luddite.jpg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Luddite.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Luddite.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/BE376541-01E7-4ECB-AC56-582B280A1E6D" alt="Image:Luddite.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213"><B>Neo-Luddism</B> is a modern movement of opposition to specific or general technological development</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213">in the UK</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213">people</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213"> <A title="Self-deprecating" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecating">self-deprecatingly</A> describe themselves as <A title="Luddites" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites">Luddites</A> if they dislike</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neo-Luddism&oldid=220585213">modern technology</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50F534F8-89F0-4BCB-8E49-0EA729D595E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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