Sentences with phrase «luddite movement»

This can be compared to the Luddite movement where part of the tension involved in the resistance to technological change derived from perceptions that the quality of goods being produced was below acceptable standards and was decreasing the reputations of their industries.

In the early 19th century, British textile artisans protested the Industrial Revolution with the anti-technology «Luddite movement.»

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, as the hand - written letter movement has become the luddite compliment to unlimited digital harassment of college football recruits, recruiting coordinators found a problem: Kids were sharing their huge one - day post office hauls on Twitter and Facebook, but they might have not been actually reading the letters.

Whether he did it or not, he gave his surname to a movement — the Luddites — whose anti-automation influence persists to this day and whose name has come to mean anyone who actively or passively resists technological progress.