Irony? RT @Calestous @luddites200 on #Twitter: commemorating the 1811-1813 #Luddite uprisings.
@luddites200 Are there any new studies on Luddism l should know about. Have been reading up on the history.
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@Calestous Best study remains the 'Army of Redressers' chapter in EP Thompson's 'Making of the English Working Class' http://libcom.org/library/making-english-working-class-ep-thompson … -
@luddites200 Thanks again. I also like "Before the Luddites" by Randall (2002). -
@Calestous for a local study of West Yorkshire Ludds, Brooke & Kipling's 'Liberty or Death' = unbeatable -
@luddites200@Calestous you can buy 2nd edition of 'Liberty or Death' here http://huddersfieldhistory.wordpress.com/publications/ -
@luddites200 I also just read: The#Luddites: At War with the Future http://awe.sm/f3c1R via@HistoryToday -
@Calestous that's dreadful revisionism, Alan Brooke and I published a rebuttal of it http://huddersfieldhistory.wordpress.com/publications/ History Today refused to publish -
@luddites200 Linton, D. (1991/92). “The Making of a Pariah: The Case of the Luddites,” Review of General Semantics, 48(4): 404-413. -
@Calestous that's new to me! Do you have a PDF? - 5 more replies
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@Calestous Kirkpatrick Sale (1995) & Kevin Binfield (2004): the latter is a review of the writings of the Luddites. I don't endorse Sale -
@luddites200 Thanks. I have the former. Working on book on socio-economic sources of resistance to technology. -
@Calestous some of Binfield's book is on google books. In many ways it's very good, but takes a post-modernist approach, I'm dubious of
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