Editing Technophobia (section)

===Luddites===
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[[File:Luddite.jpg|thumb|right|160px|''The Leader of the Luddites'', engraving of 1812]]
Several societal groups are considered technophobic, the most recognisable of which are the Luddites. Many technophobic groups revolt against modern technology because of their beliefs that these technologies are threatening their ways of life and livelihoods.<ref name=Jobs>{{cite web |url=http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/luddites.html |title=The Luddites |publisher=Regent.edu |access-date=2010-06-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529165818/http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/luddites.html |archive-date=2010-05-29 }}</ref> The Luddites were a [[social movement]] of British artisans in the 19th century who organized in opposition to technological advances in the textile industry.<ref name=lud /> These advances replaced many skilled textile artisans with comparatively unskilled machine operators. The 19th century British Luddites rejected new technologies that impacted the structure of their established trades, or the general nature of the work itself.

Resistance to new technologies did not occur when the newly adopted technology aided the work process without making significant changes to it. The British Luddites protested the application of the machines, rather than the invention of the machine itself. They argued that their labor was a crucial part of the economy, and considered the skills they possessed to complete their labor as property that needed protection from the destruction caused by the autonomy of machines.<ref>{{cite book|last=Randall|first=Adrien|title="Reinterpreting 'Luddism': Resistance to New Technology in the British Industrial Revolution" Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology and Biotechnology|year=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=57–80|isbn=9780521455183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WqlRXkxS36cC}}</ref>