... class 'mob' are also untrue. This Luddite myth is one that needs addressing, as it has fallen into lore. However it can not be ignored that the violence did sometimes escalate out of control (ending in death) yet this serves to prove just how frustrated and desperate these people were. Accounts of skilled workers having their livelihoods destroyed by the introduction of machine(s) go back far and wide in History. In Spitalfields in 1675, well over a hundred years before the invention of General Ludd, narrow weavers vented their aggression at new "engines" that could do the work of several people. Also in 1710 a London hosier employing too many apprentices in violation of the Framework Knitters Charter had his machines broken by angry Stockingers . As we can see machine breaking had been used as a weapon used by workers to protest against radical and resentful change within their trade. Yet ...

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