Violent Protests
The violent protests from the Luddites helped impact the reforms during the Industrial Revolution by showing that they have rights and by changing some peoples views.
During the Industrial Revolution, a group of British textile workers called the Luddites protested the introduction of machines that threatened to make their jobs redundant.
The first uprising by the Luddites began in November 1811, in Nottingham, it then spread in 1812 to Yorkshire and Lancashire.
The Luddist's smashed stocking frames, cropping frames, spinning frames and power looms and also burned factories. A few of their biggest actions involved more than a hundred men.
They also sent letters threatening their employers, as well as physically attacking people like employers and food merchants. This caused fights against them and government soldiers.
Their main tactic was to warn the masters to get rid of the frames from their establishment. If their warning was ignored then, using huge sledgehammers, they smashed the machines in the night time raids.
Many times before, machine breaking had occurred occasionally in disputes between workers and owners, however the Luddites were more systematic and organised.
By the end of the rebellion thousands of frames, a significant proportion of the total number in England had been smashed. In addition, it is usually argued that the Luddites effects failed. By violent state power Luddism was defeated. It played a significant role in the reform of the Industrial Revolution, because for one, the introduction of the machines helped displace labour.
Organised Luddism ended in 1813, there were random attacks of machine breaking over the following few years, other countries also saw less well organised attacks. But the Luddites were largely forgotten for the rest of the 19th C and the first half of the 20th C.
After the breaking of their rebellion, the factory system couldn’t be resisted and generations of working class men, women and children involuntarily worked 12 hours or more per day for a small allowance, their lives functioning according to the flow of the machines, their deaths usually caused by them.
Although the Luddites were defeated in the end, they still managed to show others that workers have rights too and they helped the reforms during the Industrial Revolution.
Websites used for 'Violent Protests'
http://www.luddites200.org.uk/theLuddites.html
http://www.debate.org/opinions/were-the-luddites-justified-in-their-protests-against-the-industrial-revolution
The first uprising by the Luddites began in November 1811, in Nottingham, it then spread in 1812 to Yorkshire and Lancashire.
The Luddist's smashed stocking frames, cropping frames, spinning frames and power looms and also burned factories. A few of their biggest actions involved more than a hundred men.
They also sent letters threatening their employers, as well as physically attacking people like employers and food merchants. This caused fights against them and government soldiers.
Their main tactic was to warn the masters to get rid of the frames from their establishment. If their warning was ignored then, using huge sledgehammers, they smashed the machines in the night time raids.
Many times before, machine breaking had occurred occasionally in disputes between workers and owners, however the Luddites were more systematic and organised.
By the end of the rebellion thousands of frames, a significant proportion of the total number in England had been smashed. In addition, it is usually argued that the Luddites effects failed. By violent state power Luddism was defeated. It played a significant role in the reform of the Industrial Revolution, because for one, the introduction of the machines helped displace labour.
Organised Luddism ended in 1813, there were random attacks of machine breaking over the following few years, other countries also saw less well organised attacks. But the Luddites were largely forgotten for the rest of the 19th C and the first half of the 20th C.
After the breaking of their rebellion, the factory system couldn’t be resisted and generations of working class men, women and children involuntarily worked 12 hours or more per day for a small allowance, their lives functioning according to the flow of the machines, their deaths usually caused by them.
Although the Luddites were defeated in the end, they still managed to show others that workers have rights too and they helped the reforms during the Industrial Revolution.
Websites used for 'Violent Protests'
http://www.luddites200.org.uk/theLuddites.html
http://www.debate.org/opinions/were-the-luddites-justified-in-their-protests-against-the-industrial-revolution