Is it clip for a Luddite Renaissance?
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Calling personification a "Luddite" is usually an reproach – shorthand for personification who is down the times. But the existent Luddites weren't conscionable acrophobic of change; they were a labour activity fighting to prevention their jobs from being replaced by machines. Today, pinch the emergence of AI, galore consciousness the aforesaid benignant of existential threat and immoderate are moreover pushing for a Luddite Renaissance. In this episode, Throughline takes connected a listener's mobility to research what the 19th-century Luddite rebellion tin thatch america astir exertion and quality agency.
Guests:
Katrina Navickas, history professor astatine the University of Hertfordshire and writer of the book Protest and the authorities of abstraction and place, 1789–1848
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