Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12

KPFA - Letters and Politics

English - February 26, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes - 12.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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A conversation on the Luddites with Peter Linebaugh author of Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12. The book tells us about the anonymous and scorned 19th-century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.
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