Machine-breaking revolts spanned a century and a half of English labor history

Evidence

Hobsbawm linked the revolts that echoed the ideals initially recorded among the Spitalfields weavers in 1675. Hobsbawm tells us of successive generations of weavers at Spitalfields rioting in 1719 (“against wearers of printed calicoes”), in 1736, and again, in the 1760s, against machines; in 1778–80, machine-breakers appeared in Lancashire. Luddism, proper, appeared in 1802, peaked in the 1811–13 period (spinningjennys), before largely disappearing after the suppression of the farm labor machine-breakers in 1830 in the southern counties, in East Anglia, and the Midlands. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 232

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The English Enclosure Acts forced peasants off commons land into factory labor. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1365; Landlords repeatedly smashed peasant handmills and crushed mill-right protests for centuries. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 263