Luddites

1. Opponents of the introduction of labor-saving machinery. The original Luddites, followers of a legendary Ned Ludd, were British laborers of the early nineteenth century who smashed textile-making machines that threatened their jobs.

Notes

Contemporary opponents of technological change are sometimes called “Luddites.”

Example Sentences

Graedon comes down firmly on the side of the luddites, but her vision of the future is less alarmist than alarmingly within reach.

From The Daily Beast

Paul Krugman has a column today on a topic you don't normally get much of from economists:  sympathy for the Luddites.

From The Daily Beast

Among the numerous manufacturers whose works were attacked by the Luddites, was the inventor of the bobbin-net machine himself.

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Bill had dropped in, and they sat talking of the doings of the Luddites till it was later than usual.

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I suppose it will not be for very long, for I expect that we shall not hear very much more of the Luddites.

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Fourteen of the others were hung, as were five Luddites who were tried before another tribunal.

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Luddites was a name given to malcontents who went about destroying labor-saving machinery.

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