What do you know about ‘Luddism’? Explain.
HistoryClass 11CBSEAnswered 27 Mar 2026
Answer
- Luddism, was a movement led by the charismatic General Ned Ludd. Its main aim was to demand minimum wages, control over the labour of women and children, work for those who had lost their jobs because of the coming of machinery, and the right to form trade unions so that they could legally present their demands. During the early years of industrialisation, the working population did not have the right to vote nor legal methods to express their anger at the manner in which their lives had been overturned. About 80,000 people gathered peacefully in August 1819, at St.Peter’s Fields in Manchester to claim democratic rights of political organization, public meetings and of the freedom of the press.
- This movement was ruthlessly suppressed. It was known as Peterloo Massacre Their demands were rejected by the Parliament.
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