Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
The book is a historical reconsideration of the movement and a gripping narrative of political resistance told in short vignettes ... Merchant ably demonstrates the dire stakes of the Luddites’ plight ... The book offers plenty of satisfying imagery for the twenty-first-century reader experiencing techlash.
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He brings a journalist’s touch to the Luddites’ travails, drawing connections between the conflicts and indignities of their epoch and our own ... Merchant is keen to reframe the Luddites as proto-unionist reformers rather than violent revolutionaries.
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Mr. Merchant’s narrative makes it easy to regard the factory owners as mustache-twirling villains who were enriching themselves off the labor of 7-year-olds ... Mr. Merchant is keen to see in the Luddites echoes of today’s demands for workers’ right.
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