"It was thought a bold thing at the time for Mr. Rasbotham, a magistrate near Bolton, to publish an address urging that it was for the interest of the working classes themselves to encourage inventions for abridging labour."
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
"Man vs. Machine": The Ur-Story
Last Monday, the Sandwichman traveled to Bolton, north of Manchester, and to Farnworth, just outside of Bolton, to get to the bottom of the Ur-story of "Man vs. Machine" ("Some stories reach deeper, into the most primal and profound truths. They mirror, in new and original ways, the Ur-myth, the act of creation itself.").
I will be posting two accounts of the 1779 machine riots near Manchester. One was published in the Chronicle of the Annual Register for the year 1779. The second appeared in correspondence from Josiah Wedgwood.
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