Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luddite Frame-breaker wielding a hammer; Automated car building factory robots Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wiki ...

The word “Luddite” has become shorthand for technophobe, but the original rebels of the Industrial Revolution were actually battling a more insidious foe. Ned Ludd, the fictitious leader of the ...

Very few of us can be sure that our jobs will not, in the near future, be done by machines. We know about cars built by robots, cashpoints replacing bank tellers, ticket dispensers replacing train ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Luddites have a bad reputation. These days, the word is most commonly used as an insult—shorthand for somebody who doesn’t ...

In March 1811, machine-breakers struck in the centre of England. They were not the first or the last, but they started what became known as the Luddite outrages or insurrection. The targets were ...

Luddites were 19th-century textile workers who smashed machines that during the unchecked advance of industrialization had helped to all but enslave them. Their tactics — to protest the lack of labor ...

The dictionary definition of “Luddite” broadly refers to “one who is opposed to especially technological change.” Although the dictionary also mentions that Luddites were a real 19th Century movement, ...