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Luddites were hardly the anti-tech dullards historians have painted them to be.

Never was the chasm between rich and poor more stark than in the Regency era. Ian Mortimer chronicles a period in which the wealthiest gorged themselves on the fruits of Britain’s industrial might, while the working classes endured lives that were often nasty, brutish and short

Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort

Fireplaces, vibrant walls and hot water bottles revealed.

A workhouse said to have inspired Charles Dickens may have started out as a place of support, archaeologists suggest.

Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” compares the labor struggles of the Industrial Revolution to today’s abusive gig economy.

In Blood in the Machine, LA Times tech reporter Brian Merchant lays bare the inhumane cost of capitalism wrought by the industrial revolution.

Why you need to stop using Luddite as an insult.

The 18th century English movement is shorthand for anti-tech rage, but their uprising was actually aimed at capitalist control.