来源：《BBC历史》2012年5月刊
Luddism, a protest movement that arose from the textile trade in Britain 200 years ago, first emerged during 1811, as a reaction to the replacement of skilled craftsmen with new labour-saving technology. A pattern of public petitioning quickly emerged, which was followed by machine breaking and violence across Britain’s main textile areas – Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Lancashire – as discontented craftsmen attacked the men and the factories that they deemed to be ‘illegally’ stealing their livelihoods.