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Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous

Marco Deseriis

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780816694860

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2016

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694860.001.0001

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Ned Ludd, the Machine Breaker

Ned Ludd, the Machine Breaker

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(p.29) 1 Ned Ludd, the Machine Breaker
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Improper Names
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Marco Deseriis

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816694860.003.0002

This chapter traces the migration of Ned Ludd across different regions of England through a rhetorical reading of Luddite texts. In this migration, the eponym expands its original association with machine-breaking to encompass a wider set of economic and political demands such as requests of higher wages, lower food prices, and the abolition of the monarchy.

Keywords:   Ned Ludd, pseudonym, social movements, labor history, anonymity

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