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To: TimF who wrote (74700)	7/3/2008 8:37:28 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543068

Do you think this is a decent article about them? en.wikipedia.org; Tim, I only know two things about the Luddites. The first is the general meaning carried in which anyone or any group opposed to almost any form of technological change is labeled a luddite. And, second, Thompson's argument, that it was not technological change they opposed but the loss of their livelihood. When such changes were introduced in ways that protected their livelihood, they did not oppose them. As for Thompson, he was one of the four or five most influential historians of the latter half of the 20th Century. He is, almost solely, responsible for the beginnings of the huge movement in European and American history that focused on history as social history rather than individual or state or high culture. Had the Nobel prize committees awarded such in history, as they do in other fields, he would have been among the very first. The book, The History of the English Working Class is his most important work.