Textile workers threatened with unemployment due to encroaching technology requiring fewer workers.
Ned Ludd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd#/media/File:Luddite.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd#/media/File:Luddite.jpg Ned Ludd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd#/media/File:Luddite.jpg Ned Ludd, possibly born Edward Ludlam,[1][2] is the person from whom, it is popularly claimed, the Luddites took their name. View on en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd#/media/File:Luddite.jpg Preview by Yahoo