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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

ludismo
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It was a movement organized by English artisans between 1811 and 1816, which protested the use of machines, which in their opinion would end their jobs.

  




furoya

I add to the definition of Felipe Lorenzo del Río that ludmsonism or luddism is also a way of calling technophobia, which I think is very good because it is not really a phobia but simply a rejection of technology and its advances. See also cyberphobia, mecanophobia, logilocanophobia.

  


Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Social movement started in Britain by artisan workers in the early nineteenth century against machines and industrial production because they destroyed employment and of course artisanal employment. It seems to have been named after a textile worker, Ned Ludd, perhaps pseudonym and legendary character in the style of Robin Hood, hero of the proletariat, contrary to the industrial revolution, who destroyed several textile machines. This movement spread during the 19th century by different countries. Also in Spain there were Luddite episodes in Alicante, Segovia or Girona.

  



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