Luddite
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Luddite adalah para pekerja tekstil atau penenun Inggris dari abad ke-19 (terutama antara tahun 1811 hingga 1816) yang menentang pengembangan teknologi yang menghemat penggunaan tenaga kerja karena mesin-mesin penenun yang diperkenalkan pada masa Revolusi Industri mengancam lapangan kerja mereka. Pergerakan Luddite memicu pemberontakan di Inggris barat laut yang membuat pemerintah Britania harus mengirim banyak pasukan untuk memadamkannya.
Walaupun asal usul kata Luddite (/ˈlʌd.aɪt/) masih belum pasti, nama pergerakan ini diduga berasal dari Ned Ludd, seorang pemuda yang menghancurkan dua mesin penenun pada tahun 1779.[1][2][3]
Catatan kaki
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Anstey at Welcome to Leicester (visitoruk.com) Diarsipkan 2016-02-05 di Wayback Machine. According to this source, "A half-witted Anstey lad, Ned Ludlam or Ned Ludd, gave his name to the Luddites, who in the 1800s followed his earlier example by smashing machinery in protest against the Industrial Revolution."
- ^ Palmer, Roy, 1998, The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-215890-1, p. 103
- ^ Chambers, Robert (2004), Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Part 1, Kessinger, ISBN 978-0-7661-8338-4, p. 357
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Lihat entri Luddite di kamus bebas Wiktionary.
- Luddite Bicentenary - Comprehensive chronicle of the Luddite uprisings
- The Luddite Link - Comprehensive historical resources for the original West Yorkshire Luddites, University of Huddersfield.
- The Uprising Series, a series of creative events marking the bicentenary of the Luddites' uprisings in West Yorkshire, led by the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield [pranala nonaktif]
- Is it O.K. to be a Luddite? by Thomas Pynchon
- Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver School of Education Diarsipkan 2010-06-09 di Wayback Machine.
- The Luddites and the Combination Acts from the Marxists Internet Archive