Luddites

GPTKB entity

Properties (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf social movement
gptkbp:activeDuring Industrial Revolution
gptkbp:advocatesFor fair wages
gptkbp:aimsTo social justice
protect jobs
gptkbp:area anti-globalization movements
gptkbp:associatedWith worker rights
gptkbp:availableIn 1816
gptkbp:caseOutcome job displacement
gptkbp:description violent protestors
gptkbp:faced government repression
gptkbp:formed protest groups
gptkbp:foughtAgainst capitalist_exploitation
gptkbp:hasImpactOn labor laws
gptkbp:hasResearchInterest traditional crafts
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Luddites
gptkbp:influenced modern discussions on technology
gptkbp:influencedBy economic changes
gptkbp:inspiration future labor movements
gptkbp:inspiredBy economic hardship
gptkbp:introduced 1811
gptkbp:isChallengedBy mechanization
factory system
gptkbp:isConsidered early activists
precursors to modern labor unions
gptkbp:isCriticizedFor industrialists
gptkbp:isDocumentedIn historical records
gptkbp:isInfluencedBy Romanticism
gptkbp:isLocatedIn gptkb:Yorkshire
gptkbp:isMaintainedBy resistance to change
gptkbp:isOrganizedBy anti-progress
gptkbp:isPartOf modern activists
anti-industrial movement
larger social unrest
gptkbp:isReferencedIn literature
gptkbp:isStudiedIn sociology
gptkbp:isSymbolicOf technological resistance
gptkbp:knownFor destroying machinery
gptkbp:ledTo Luddite riots
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Ned_Ludd
gptkbp:opposedBy industrialization
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:England
gptkbp:resultedIn arrests and executions
gptkbp:targets textile machinery
gptkbp:uses sabotage
gptkbp:utilizes public demonstrations
gptkbp:viewpoint anti-technology
gptkbp:wasFoundedIn textile industry
early 19th century
gptkbp:wasSupportedBy some artisans