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Contents
Chapter One MachineBreakers and Luddites | 11 |
Chapter Two The Causes of Luddism | 41 |
Chapter Three The Aims of the Luddites | 74 |
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| Title | The Luddites; Machine-breaking in Regency England Schocken SB 369 Schocken paperbacks Studies in the libertarian and utopian tradition |
| Author | Malcolm I. Thomis |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Schocken Books, 1972 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | Mar 16, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0805203699, 9780805203691 |
| Length | 196 pages |
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