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.
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Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age
May 1, 1996, Basic Books
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"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."
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