Peter Linebaugh: Ned Ludd and Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons Of 1811-12 (2012)
12 July 2013, dusan
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · 1800s, luddism, machine, romanticism
“Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists 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.”
Publisher PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2012
Report Pamphlet Series, No. 001
ISBN 9781604867046
48 pages
review (Alan Brooke)
author’s lecture on luddism (audio)
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