MAKE FREE BY CORY DOCTOROW
Love the Machine, Hate the Factory
We’ve heard a lot about how scary the industrial revolution was — the dislocations it wrought on the agrarian population of the early 19th century were wrenching and terrible, and the revolution was a bloody one. From that time, we have the word Luddite, referring to uprisings against the machines that were undoing ancient ways of living and working.
But the troubles of the 1810s were only the beginning. By the end of the century, the workplace was changing again. Workers who’d adapted over three generations to working in factories at machines, rather than tilling the land and working in small cottage workshops, once again found their lives being dramatically remade by the forces of ...
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