Bears with Mystery

basically, it was a fight between working class skilled labourers and early leaching capitalist industrialists and was one of the first pushbacks against what would eventually be called capitalism.

obviously and unfortunately, the luddites lost. and that's why mainstream history looks at luddites like they were a bunch of backwards low intelligence people afraid of technology. they weren't that at all! they were fighting for survival against the rising capitalist industrial revolution that enclosed and displaced people from their land forcing them to move to dirty overcrowded cities to work long hours in dirty dangerous factories for low pay and without any semblance of labour rights, and ya, capitalists just up and stole their way of life for the same reason we are in the shit position we are today: profit line must go up!

podcast recommendation: cool people who did cool stuff, the episodes about the luddites. don't remember exactly what the episodes were called but some combination of those words in your search should bring them up. cuz turns out they were pretty cool.