Rebels Against The Future
The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-201-40718-1 (ISBN)
Description
Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous centre of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites'struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit in response to today's technological revolution and calls for another sort of rebellion: not one of violence but rather of intellectually and ethically sound protest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-40718-1 (9780201407181)
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Person
Kirkpatrick Sale is a contributing editor of The Nation and the author of many books, including Conquering Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy.
Content
* Introduction * With Hatchet, Pike and Gun * The First Industrial Revolution * The Luddites: November-December 1811 * The Luddites: January-April 1812 * The Luddites: April-May 1812 * The Luddites: May 1812-January 1813 * The Luddites: 1813-... * The Second Industrial Revolution * The Neo-Luddites * Lessons from the Luddites * Timeline