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== Further reading ==
Anderson, Gary M.; Tollison, Robert D. (1986). "Luddism as cartel enforcement". Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)/Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft. 142 (4): 727–738. JSTOR 40750927.
Archer, John E. (2000). "Chapter 4: Industrial Protest". Social unrest and popular protest in England, 1780–1840. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57656-7.
Bailey, Brian J. (1998). The Luddite Rebellion. NYU Press. ISBN 0-8147-1335-1.
Darvall, F. (1934). Popular Disturbances and Public Order in Regency England. Oxford University Press.
Dinwiddy, John (1979). "Luddism and politics in the northern counties". Social History. 4 (1): 33–63. doi:10.1080/03071027908567438.
Fox, Nicols (2003). Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite History in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives. Island Press. ISBN 1-55963-860-5.
Grint, Keith; Woolgar, Steve (1997). "The Luddites: Diablo ex Machina". The machine at work: technology, work, and organization. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-7456-0924-9.
Haywood, Ian (2006). "Unruly People: The Spectacular Riot". Bloody Romanticism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 181–222.
Horn, Jeff (2015). "Machine-Breaking and the 'Threat from Below' in Great Britain and France during the Early Industrial Revolution". Crowd actions in Britain and France from the middle ages to the modern world. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 165–178.
Linebaugh, Peter (2012). Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: machine-breaking, romanticism, and the several commons of 1811–12. PM Press.
Linton, David (1992). "The Luddites: How did they get that bad reputation?". Labor History. 33 (4): 529–537. doi:10.1080/00236569200890281.
McGaughey, Ewan (2022). "Will Robots Automate Your Job Away? Full Employment, Basic Income, and Economic Democracy". Industrial Law Journal. 51 (3): 511–559. doi:10.1093/indlaw/dwab010. PMC 8344681. SSRN 3044448.
Merchant, Brian (2023). Blood in the Machine. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316487740.
Munger, Frank (1981). "Suppression of Popular Gatherings in England, 1800–1830". American Journal of Legal History. 25 (2): 111–140. doi:10.2307/844630. JSTOR 844630. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019.
Navickas, Katrina (2005). "The search for 'general Ludd': The mythology of Luddism". Social History. 30 (3): 281–295. doi:10.1080/03071020500185406.
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Taylor, Alan M. (2013). "Luddites, the industrial revolution, and the demographic transition". Journal of Economic Growth. 18 (4): 373–409. doi:10.1007/s10887-013-9096-y. JSTOR 42635331.
Pallas, Stephen J. (2018). "'The Hell that Bigots Frame': Queen Mab, Luddism, and the Rhetoric of Working-Class Revolution". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 12 (2): 55–80. doi:10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0055. JSTOR 10.14321/jstudradi.12.2.0055.
Patterson, A. Temple (April 1948). "Luddism, Hampden Clubs, and Trade Unions in Leicestershire, 1816–17". English Historical Review. 63 (247): 170–188. doi:10.1093/ehr/LXIII.CCXLVII.170. JSTOR 556364.
Poitras, Geoffrey (2020). "The Luddite trials: Radical suppression and the administration of criminal justice" (PDF). Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 14 (1): 121–166. doi:10.14321/jstudradi.14.1.0121. JSTOR 10.14321/jstudradi.14.1.0121. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2022.
Pynchon, Thomas (28 October 1984). "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
Randall, Adrian (2002). Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89334-3.
Rude, George (2005). "Chapter 5, Luddism". The crowd in History, 1730–1848. Serif. ISBN 978-1-897959-47-3.
Stöllinger, Roman (November 2018). "The Luddite rebellion: Past and present" (PDF). wiiw Monthly Report. The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. pp. 6–11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2022.
Thomis, Malcolm I. (1970). The Luddites: Machine-Breaking in Regency England. Archon Books.
Thompson, E. P. (1968). The Making of the English Working Class. Penguin. ISBN 0140210008.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey (1987). "'Civilization' and Its Discontents: The Boxers and Luddites as Heroes and Villains". Theory and Society: 675–707. JSTOR 657679.

=== Primary sources ===
Binfield, Kevin (2004). Writings of the Luddites. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-7612-5.

== External links ==

Luddite Bicentenary – Comprehensive chronicle of the Luddite uprisings Archived 14 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
The Luddite Link – Comprehensive historical resources for the original West Yorkshire Luddites, University of Huddersfield
Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver School of Education
The Luddites and the Combination Acts Archived 15 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine from the Marxists Internet Archive
The Luddites (1988) Archived 26 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine – Thames Television drama-documentary about the West Riding Luddites.