Luddism
Anti-technology worker movement
Luddism is opposition to new technology, especially from fear that it will displace workers or disrupt traditional ways of life.
The term comes from early 19th-century English textile workers who destroyed machinery they believed threatened their livelihoods.
Modern usage is usually dismissive: His refusal to use email is pure Luddism.
A Luddite holds such views.
Opposed to modern machinery
- anti-progressOpposition to advancement
- technophobiaDread of modern devices
- simplicityLack of complexity
- analogComparable equivalent
Created manually, not mechanically
- artisanalMade by skilled craftspeople
- skillAcquired ability through practice
- qualityStandard or attribute
- traditional methodsLong-established ways of doing
apprenticeship · guild system · pre-industrial · cottage industry · bespoke · handiwork · workmanship
Transition to factory-based economy
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- workersPeople doing jobs
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
handloom · weaver · factory · guild · working-class · unemployment · nineteenth-century · England
Act of completely ruining
- wreckingDestroying completely
- hammersHeavy-headed striking tools
- vandalismWillful property damage
- dismantlingTaking apart systematically
Organized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- riotViolent public disturbance
- collective actionOrganized group pursuit
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
petition · manifesto · grievance · unrest · discontent · worker solidarity · march · assembly
Of countryside or clergy care
- pre-industrialBefore mass manufacturing emerged
- bygone eraPeriod no longer current
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
simpler times · agrarian · romanticism · golden age · village life · human scale · community · autonomy
anti-technology
Opposed to modern machinery
- anti-progressOpposition to advancement
- technophobiaDread of modern devices
- simplicityLack of complexity
handmade
Created manually, not mechanically
- artisanalMade by skilled craftspeople
- skillAcquired ability through practice
- qualityStandard or attribute
traditional methods · apprenticeship · guild system · pre-industrial · cottage industry · bespoke · handiwork · workmanship
industrialization
Transition to factory-based economy
labor · handloom · weaver · factory · guild · working-class · unemployment · nineteenth-century · England · Nottingham
destruction
Act of completely ruining
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- riotViolent public disturbance
- collective actionOrganized group pursuit
demonstration · petition · manifesto · grievance · unrest · discontent · worker solidarity · march · assembly · agitation
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- pre-industrialBefore mass manufacturing emerged
- bygone eraPeriod no longer current
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
heritage · simpler times · agrarian · romanticism · golden age · village life · human scale · community · autonomy
- technophobiatechnophobia, cyberphobia, AI fear, privacy concerns, tech backlash
- anti-modernismtechnophobia, technophobe, anti-technology, anti-industrial, anti-industrialism
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
- denialismclimate denial, Holocaust denial, vaccine denial, denialism, anti-science
- Victorian IdeasVictorianism, Darwinism, social Darwinism, evolution, natural selection
- technoethicsAI ethics, cyber ethics, robot rights, bioethics, content moderation
Luddismtechnophilia
Love of modern machinery
techno-utopianism · transhumanism · futurism · accelerationism · progressivism
Luddismtechnocracy
Governance by technical experts
scientific management · Taylorism · mechanization · industrialism · robotization