The Luddite Revolt

In the early 1800s, England was still mainly a country of agriculture. Frank Ongley Durvall points out in his article "UK Regency Regency Riot and Public Order", "More than half of the population lives in this country" (12). There are more than one million inhabitants in London. But the population of this city is only one tenth of England's total population. Apart from London, there are only thousands of people living in most towns, with an average family size of 5 to 6 people.

The uprising of Luddite is part of history and it is relatively unknown to me. So I decided to read it carefully. In the early days of the industrial revolution, we found that the number of unemployed people has increased significantly. This is because traditional craftworkers are out of date with some of the new manufacturing processes at the time. The Industrial Revolution has made craftsmanship a thing of the past. Luddites are not suitable for dealing with this situation. These craftsmen felt the threat of new technology and they damaged the production materials related to them. In 1816, Luddites suffered a violent revolt and 53 frames were destroyed at the Heathcote and Boden factories in Loughsboro, England. The cost of this rebellion is huge. Currently, automated machines can produce products faster and cheaper than a single business, and these people feel they are economically viable themselves.

A large amount of artificial rapid displacement is not new. In the early nineteenth century, Luddites resisted mechanical weaving machines that replace the production of handmade fabrics. About 60 years later, the number of US employees has reached 53% of the total employment population. Today, it is less than 3%. In fact, since 1980, agricultural employment has declined sharply in most countries. In some countries including Portugal, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, agricultural employment share has declined by more than 20%. In other countries such as Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Poland, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, it decreased more than 10%.

In 1812, the witness of the parliamentary committee testified that the pain of the working class was the worst case they encountered (Thomis 43). This difficulty stimulated Luddite's uprising and other uprisings. Thanks to the French and American revolution, and the extremists of Thomas Paine (Human Rights, 1791 - 2) and William Corbett (Politics), workers in villages and towns claim their general rights. write. sign up. Skilled artisans in the textile industry are superseded by steam and hydraulically driven machinery, and the production of cheap, unskilled labor and second-class goods. The remaining craftsmen were forced to move from their traditional workplace to the desolated factories and factories. We have created a new working class and a new manufacturing bourgeoisie or middle class