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Stuff You Should Know

The Luddites: Misunderstood Working Class Heroes

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today we think of Luddites as people who don’t know how to use technology or are maybe even afraid of it. That’s pretty far from what the original Luddites were all about. They were the first workers to fight for fair treatment. They were not successful.

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1:00.0

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Hey and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and

1:17.0

we're about to break our computers just to get in the mood for this episode.

1:24.0

Good job, my friend.

1:27.0

Do you think so?

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Because a lot of the times you say like, oh, that was great or way to go or something like that.

1:31.0

And I'm like, that was not that good.

1:33.1

And that's a good example of that.

1:35.4

I don't mean that joke.

1:36.4

I mean the article you put together, just like the old days.

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