Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution
Subtitle: Lessons for the Computer Age
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780201407181
First sentence: IT WAS ABOUT a half hour after midnight on an April Sunday in 1812 that the band of some six score Yokshiremen finally made their way down the rutted lane that led to a place called Rawfolds Mill, a looming multistory building, protected by a gated wall, housing the hated woolen machines of the hated manufacturer William Cartwright.