Review of ‘Breaking things at Work: the Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
Brian Martin
Vol 7, Issue 2 · pp. 128–131 · 2021 · DOI https://doi.org/10.63961/2025.162
Excerpt
"The Luddites have a bad reputation. They were English weavers in the early 1800s who opposed the introduction of mechanized looms and went about destroying them, taking their name from the imaginary character Ned Ludd. Since then, the term Luddite has been turned into a derogatory label for anyone critical of new technologies and therefore deemed to be against progress. If you do not want to use a mobile phone or eat genetically modified food, you might be called a Luddite, and it is not complimentary. More specifically, workers who damage their equipment are portrayed as irrational."
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