...and organizations who oppose technologies. The vast majority who oppose is only selective, but there are few who resist technology as a whole. Typically, most of those who oppose are due to select issues. These organizations include Luddites, Amish, and Greenpeace. Luddites opposes technology that interferes with people’s livelihood. Such is the case when machines are built for manufacturers, the demand for human workers declines and income plummets, which causes the group to revolt (Pynchon, 1984). The Amish community opposes most technologies. The community’s way of life is through agriculture and hard work (Labi, 2005). The Amish are averse to any technology that they feel weakens the family structure (Powell, n.d.). When a member wants to adopt a new technology, it needed to be within guidelines, and then brought up to the elders for approval. The third in the groups, who resist, are environmentalists, called Greenpeace (Harrington, 2009). The organization’s concern is focused more on the negative residuals to the environment caused by technology. In addition to the groups previously mentioned, there are also a few who oppose technology to its fullest. Two of these groups include the Neo-Luddites and Anarcho-Primitivism. Contrary to Luddites,...
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...The impact of today’s technology on family and work life The world has witnessed a whirlwind of change since after the industrial revolution and no sector is it more prevalent than in Technology. Prior to the twenty first century, majority of the convenience we are accustomed to today were non- existent, and where they do people were engaged in providing them; be it banking automatic teller machine, lift operating, telephony, etc. Personal development has taken on a whole new meaning due to advancement in technology and today’s employees are in jobs created mostly due to technology. No one would have visualised decades ago that there would be applications to do everything we need to and communicate and we can have most of them on our cell phones and or accessed them at a single click from our laptops and desktops. The impact is humongous. In sales and marketing for example, the customer has access to information like never before and in most cases would have made initial buying decisions based on that information and before being approached by a salesman. Technological advancement is visible in our classrooms too. Before, lectures were delivered using chalks and blackboards. Today, lectures are delivered via projectors. There is a college in the state of Philadelphia where all students use laptops. In other words, education has become paperless, and it is so in many parts of the world now. A nation and people that has contributed significantly into making technology accessible...
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...Neo-Luddism is a modern movement of personal views that oppose technology. Neo-Luddism is based on the Luddism of British Luddites who existed in the 19th century. The British Luddites as well as today Neo-Luddites are known for protesting and destroying private property. As stated the Neo-Luddites still raises ethical and moral arguments against the invention of new technology. They think that today technology has taken control rather than facilitated. Neo-Luddites thinks such leviathans can threaten our essential humanity. As a result of new technology being invented, they feel its only going to get worst. The Neo-Luddites have similar feelings about the new industrial revolution (but embrace modern branding. (BBC News, March 2001) Neo-Luddites do not have hatred towards new technology, but they do not like the way new technology is taking over. They feel that technology is the cause of many people losing their livelihoods. They question technology. They want the society as a whole to see the effects technology will have on us. They also do not agree with the way we treat nature. They have many strengths and weaknesses. Some of their strengths are that they have reached a number of people with the idea of being cautious about accepting new technology and they also have reached out to a number of people about the way nature is being treated and destroyed. Some of the weaknesses are that new technology is being developed everyday and that their message is not getting across...
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...The Luddites were 19th century textile artisans attack and against machinery introduced. Because of new technology introduced, the skilled workers were replaced by unskilled workers, who were having low wages and less skilled workers. The skilled workers are aware of the new technology would lead to lose their job, and made them unemployed or earned less. Currently, new technology would make skilled workers more attractive, because technologies are more biased on skilled peoples. And firms or companies are more likely to hire skilled workers, because they are much more productive and familiar to new technology, or well-known about new technology, or just can use new technology much efficacy than unskilled peoples. Because of this the demand of skilled people in nowadays are increasing, the wages are much higher than unskilled workers. Despite the demand differences between skilled and unskilled workers, the supply for skilled workers are more inelastic than unskilled, because it takes long time to training or educated. So because of high demand for skilled workers and more inelastic of supply, skilled workers nowadays are much more attractive and paid high wages. As result the high demand for skilled workers will stimulus government or society to training more skilled workers or more people would like to learn skills. Therefore increase the supply of skilled workers and employment level. Eventually, more skilled workers related to unskilled workers, the inequality or skill...
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...Social movements are considered organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society (Schaeffer, 2009, pp. 401-402). Two concepts that immediately come to mind are technology and economics. Technology because of its rapid overtakes of the world in the 20 years; the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s our working class was more involved in the overall labor status and “hands-on” work. Now days we see the takeover of computers and all their technology; computers and technology are not only taking jobs from our economy but also making our lives ten times easy. People don’t want to see their loved ones and neighbors lose their jobs but they reap the benefits of what the new technological world has to offer. Easy ways to do almost everything, from cheaper and easier ways to send mail; to nanotechnology that can cure diabetes and almost all cancers; the fact is that many have adapted to the concept of job lost in the new technological world and have accepted this change. Economics and the way we see to keep changing what we do with our money is also another way we have change social movements. Again, in the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s we saw our economy go from great to greater. Then our faulty bank practices, terrible investing, and simple government and private corruption caught up to us and caused our country more problems than the good it created. Now what we see from our people is cautiousness when investing,...
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...It is difficult to define what exactly is the technology. In principle the term literally refers to the study of the technique, that is, to all the theoretical or practical knowledge involving the scientific disciplines. According to this definition, something is to be a technology as such, you must have a use in a particular field. At the time that no longer used, it would be technology. Like that is pretty hard to categorize, we tend to talk about obsolete technologies or obsolete. No need to go to the time of the invention of fire to see technologies that have been replaced by others: that to our grandparents it was technology for our generation can be an anachronism without practical use. There is another concept used today such as new technologies, involving various fields of recent creation as computer science, telecommunications. Anyway in modern society living technology as old as the wheel with newer. The importance of technology is almost always linked to practical applications you may have. In fact, a very expensive or very complicated, technology doesn't succeed, because its implementation is very complicated. That's why sometimes technologies that seem rudimentary trump other much more 'modern'. Either way, technology tends to be in continuous progress, in general being the practical development of new ideas conceived by the scientific disciplines, and is therefore closely linked to the concept of innovation. In the life of modern society, technology is indispensable...
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...B)Farming and domestification of animals 2.Francis Bacon argued that scientific method different from logic and mathematical in that D)scientific inquiry starts with the phenomena and ends in theory. 3.Wajcman argues that the perception of technology as necessarily masculine is D)socially constructecd, and a result of parrent of production and consumption of the technologies 4.The instruduction of four uniform time zones in the united states was a direct result of C)The impact of a fully interated reailroad system 5.One of the chareacteristics wikiart is B) it's collaberative and ever-changing 6.according to Winner, the use of computer technologies to supervise workersis B) A reflection of a political relationship 7.The term Luddite refers to C) Workers who rejected new technologies 8.Which of the following consider a scholarly resource? B) Journal of the American Medical Association 9.Bill Joy compare the threat ofself-replicating nanotehcnology with A) The use of living cells in genetic engineering 10.The term nanotechnology was first used to referred to B) Production techonology Essay questions 50 points each 1. (TCO 1&2) Landes argues that these were cultural differences between the East and the West that affected the development and application of some technologies such as the clock. Did these difference also affect the way these cultures approached information thechnologies such as the printing press? Can you make a comparison with the different...
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...Social History ISSN: 0307-1022 (Print) 1470-1200 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshi20 The search for ‘General Ludd’: the mythology of Luddism Katrina Navickas To cite this article: Katrina Navickas (2005) The search for ‘General Ludd’: the mythology of Luddism, Social History, 30:3, 281-295, DOI: 10.1080/03071020500185406 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071020500185406 Published online: 05 Aug 2006. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 574 View related articles Citing articles: 4 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rshi20 Download by: [York University Libraries] Date: 17 February 2016, At: 09:19 Social History Vol. 30 No. 3 August 2005 Katrina Navickas Downloaded by [York University Libraries] at 09:19 17 February 2016 The search for ‘General Ludd’: the mythology of Luddism1 In attempting to make sense of the working-class disturbances of the period 1811–13, both contemporaries and historians have searched for ‘General Ludd’ and his followers. The magistrates who sent out their spies to uncover the underground organization of the movement, the witnesses and prosecutors at the Assize trials giving their versions of events, the parliamentary Secret Committee set up to investigate the disturbances, and the historians who rely on evidence surviving from these...
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...Assignment Two – HIST 304 | The Peasant’s Revolt and The Decline of Serfdom | Why did the Peasants’ Revolt Occur? Did the insurgents hope to abolish serfdom? How and why did serfdom decline and eventually disappear in England, notwithstanding the failure of the 1381 uprising and other influences of lower class protest against social inequality and injustice? | Naomi Woods Student 297278812/22/2011 | The Peasants Revolt is one of the most well known revolts of Medieval England, the revolt began as a local revolt in Essex in May of 1381, but it soon spread throughout the South East of England affecting many smaller towns along the way and having the biggest impact on London when the people turned their grievances towards the young King Richard II. This revolt was not a planned revolt but rather a spontaneous revolt fuelled by numerous grievances and sparked by the poll tax Parliament had introduced to help pay for the war in France. Incidences in the villages of Fobbing and Brentwood in Essex are said to have triggered the uprising. On 30 May 1381 a tax collector attempted to collect the poll tax from the villagers of Fobbing, the villagers, lead by a local land owner refused to pay and he was forced to leave empty handed, later Robert Belknap (Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas) arrived to investigate and punish the offenders, On June 2 he was attacked in Brentwood. By this time the counties of Essex and Kent were in full revolt the peasants and artisans of Essex...
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...In the video “Eric Foner on the Pueblo Revolt” Eric Foner talks about Pope´ being the main religious leader to Indians in the Pueblo Revolt. This Revolt took place in the 1680’s in New Mexico. In 1598, Juan de Onate occupied the territories of northern New Mexico. The Spanish colonists arrived in New Mexico without sufficient supplies and turned to local Indian natives to obtain by threat food and essentials. The Pueblo Indians refused to give the Spanish colonists their food so they were an instant enemy to the Spanish colonists. The Spanish responded in many aggressive ways including burning down Pueblos. The rise of Christianity among the Spanish drove traditional pueblo Indian religion to a stand still. Spanish missionaries had been working towards exterminating the traditional Indian religion; the Spanish colonists wanted all of the Indians to convert to Roman Catholicism. The Spanish colonists did many things to try and reach this goal, such as breaking up places of worship and religious sights. The Spanish colonists even went as far as killing around 800 Indians and enslaving just as many, if not more. There were also differences in the economic practices of the Spanish colonists. During these years before the revolt, Pueblo Indians suffered lack of water, starvation, and death, all of these factors contributing to a far-reaching decrease in the Pueblo Indian population. Open resistance to the Spanish colonists demands resulted in ruthless consequences such as amputation...
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...In exchange, the Franciscans received free labor. They would not have to farm for food as the Pueblo supplied them with enough food to feed the colony. This deal worked out for quite a while. Although, this also was in times when there was more Native Americans than Europeans. Times changed quickly and by 1680 there were many more Europeans in North America than there were Indians. This was just the start of the issue. In 1680 the Pueblo revolted against the Europeans in the surrounding areas. Many have asked themselves, “Why did the Pueblo revolt?”. There has been a variety of issues which could have caused it, but it is believed that the Pueblo Indians revolts to save their lives. Europeans were posing as a threat to the Pueblo and they revolted to save their...
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...German Peasant Revolt DBQ The German peasants of the 1524-1526 revolts were caused by interpretations of Lutheran ideals, the peasants desires to break free from serfdom, and the general search for equality in the eyes of god. The response to the peasant revolts varied among the social, political, and religious affiliations, ranging from cruel condemnation to fervent support of their cause. The rebels organized swiftly and fought hard, this determination helped achieve social reform, which the most important German reformer, Martin Luther, was completely opposed to. Though the revolts were blamed on Lutheran reforms (Doc 1), Luther himself vehemently refuted the dispute (Doc 7). He refers to the peasants as dogs and is generally cruel towards their cause. Though a religious reformer, his dependence on the German nobility would not allow him to support the peasants; therefore his point of view is one in support of quelling the rebellions. The peasants may not have had the support of their greatest religious inspiration but they still drew on his word in order to justify their fight. The peasants claim that because all men are equal under the eyes of god, they have just as much divine right as the nobles do (Doc 3). These religious drives were set out in the Articles of The Peasants of Memmingen and would be responded to by the nobles, thus connecting Docs 3 and 4. The nobles would retort to the religious grounds of the peasants by ensuring them that their salvation was not...
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...How far can the rebellions of 1549 be considered a key turning point in the changing nature of rebellion against Tudor rule in England 1485 to 1587? The period between 1485 and 1587 sprouted a large amount of rebellions during the reign of the Tudors. The 1549 rebellions can be seen as significant in the changing nature of rebellion based on numerous factors. Yet were there any other rebellions which contributed more to the changing nature? What may have influenced the changing nature of rebellion was the backdrop of the controversial way the Tudors came to power, leaving dynastic issues within the period. This can be seen in two of the rebellions during the reign of Henry VII. Warbeck and Simnel were deemed as ‘pretenders’ and offered little threat to the King. However these pretenders both received support from the Duchess of Burgundy. This foreign support could have turned from a very small scale movement into a war. This clearly shows that 1549 was not the only mark of change on the Tudor period and that these rebellions started the ‘domino effect’, which could have caused all the rebellions during the Tudor period. Kett’s rebellion involved a large amount of Socio-Cultural issues, and even The Western rebellion held the situation of enclosure as a deep lying cause. Yet after these rebellions very little socio-economic issues were raised and even the small factor raised by Wyatt’s rebellion was constructed to raise a larger participation. Fletcher and MacCulloch support...
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...LUDDITE REVOLT XECO/212 ROCHELL ROUNDTREE MARCH 22, 2012 GREG KROPKOWSKI What was the impact on the supply and demand of labor on one sector of the labor market? The impact on supply and demand was critical in the Luddite revolt. It all begins in 1779 when the failure of a Bill to regulate the frame-knitting industry had resulted in 300 frames being smashed and thrown into the streets. This is where the shortage of the supply begins. Then, by 1810 the Orders in Council and a change in fashion had led to deterioration in the standard of craftsmanship required in stocking making and a consequent cheapening of the trade. It was the attempt to intimidate some masters who brought in the new machines that caused Nottingham stocking knitters to smash the machines. (http://www.victorianweb.org/history/riots/luddites.html) Then the impact on the demand of Stocking knitting became predominantly a domestic industry, the stockier renting his frame from the Master and working in his own 'shop' using thread given to him by the Master; the finished items were handed back to the Master to sell. The frames were therefore scattered round the villages; this cause the demand to increase it then became easy for the Luddites to smash a frame and then disappear. Between March 1811 and February 1812 the supply of frames had been affected. About a thousand machines at the cost of between 6,000 and 10,000 were smashed. This had a damaging impact on the supply and demand (http://www.victorianweb...
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...lost their jobs because it was cheaper and more efficient to have a machine do the work instead of paying a man to do it. People would rebel against technology, but technology has not gone away. Technology has been seen as a useful tool and also seen as a menace, but no matter how people see it technology is here to stay as a part of civilization. People who in the early 19th century made a living from working in factories began to see the early introduction of technology and machines into factories as a hazard. These people began to get enraged because they were losing their jobs and were no longer capable of providing for their families. Many of these employees began to revolt and fight back not against the owners of the factories, but the machines themselves. These people began to devastate machines and revolt against the technology itself that took their jobs away from them. The men who began to rebel made a name for themselves and were called the...
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