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Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the machine-wrecking campaign carried on by early nineteenth-century English workers who felt the machines were destroying their jobs.

Annotated edition.

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers.  Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley (1849) is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations.

Shirley is a romance set against the background of the Luddite disturbances in Yorkshire.

Though famous for the often violent protests they organized, the Luddites also engaged in literary resistence in the form of poems, proclamations, petitions, songs, and letters. In this volume, literary scholar Kevin Binfield collects complete texts written by Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816, adds detailed notes, and organizes the documents by the three primary regions of origin: the Midlands, Northwestern England, and Yorkshire.
 

This volume makes available and accessible a wealth of textual and cultural information that has been overlooked for far too long by literary scholars and cultural historians alike.  

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.  

This is a book about the Luddites for children.

Digitised version of a classic late-Victorian fictional account of the Luddites for children.

Includes 1 booklets and 14 information sheets. 

Classic novel commencing with the Luddite rising in Yorkshire by Halifax authoress Phyllis Bentley. Her work describes the ascent and decline of the West Riding's textile industry and the relations between master and men through the story of five generations of the Oldroyds,  a factory-owning family.