Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):193-195; doi:10.1093/es/khj020
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Kevin Binfield. Writings of the Luddites. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxviii + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7612-5, $49.95 (cloth).
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On the whole this volume offers more than its title suggests. Kevin Binfield has collected and annotated a wide array of texts concerning not only the specific activities of the Luddites but also the wider economic and political contention of the 1810s. He takes as his purpose the "textual recovery" of working peoples rhetorical strategies from the Luddite era. To do this, he has thoroughly scoured national, county, and city archives, local newspapers, collections of several major businesses
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