BREAKING THINGS AT WORK

In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashin g them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and manoeuvres that they would later deploy on unsuspecting machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to ste m the march of history/ for Gavin Mueller, the movement gets at the heart of the antagonistic relationship between all workers, incl uding us...[Read more]