Notes for Frank Webster and Kevin Robins Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis


Key concepts: luddism.


Related theorists: .


Frontispiece from More Utopia explains the rich have exploited the labor of the poor since the founding of governmental units.

(vii) Therefore when I consider and way in my mind all these commen wealthes, which now a dayes any where do florish, so god help me, I can perceave nothing but a certein conspiracy of riche men procuringe theire owne commodities under the name and title of the common wealth. They invent and devise all meanes and craftes, first how to kepe safely, without feare of lesing, that they have unjustly gathered together, and next how to hire and abuse the worke and laboure of the poor for as little money as may be.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1
Introduction: A Latter-Day Luddism

Luddism forecloses debate on social and political meaning of technological change.

(2) The accusation of “Luddism” has become a ritual incantation that forecloses debate on the social and political meanings, the causes and effects or technological change.




Webster, Frank and Robins, Kevin. Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1986. Print.