Ricardo Duchesne wrote: > Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His > is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours. > I replied to the original post before seeing this one. Anyone who is not familiar in detail with Thompson's work can hardly have a "position" on the Luddites that anyone needs attend to. How can anyone have a position on "X" without knowing even what century X occurred in? Carrol