| ▲ | Gooblebrai 8 hours ago | |
> The Industrial Revolution - the greatest thing ever to happen - required the British govt to deploy more troops against Luddites than they had fighting Napoleon at the same time Source of this claim? | ||
| ▲ | MrBuddyCasino 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
E.P. Thompson, „The Making of the English Working Class“. It is admittedly a specific cherry picked point in time at which this was true, but useful to illustrate the issue. | ||