Blood in the Machine by Merchant, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication Epigraph Persons of Interest The Machinery A Brief Note on Sources Introduction PRELUDE Power Looms

Edmund Cartwright, 1786 Mary Godwin, 1797 Robert Blincoe, 1799 Ned Ludd, 1803

PART I The Great Comet

George Mellor, Spring 1811 Gravener Henson, March 1811 The Machine Breakers, March 1811 The Entrepreneurs, 1800s The Prince Regent, Summer 1811 George Mellor, Summer 1811 The Machinery Question, 1800s Ned Ludd, Fall 1811 Lord Byron, Fall 1811 George Mellor, Fall 1811 Ned Ludd, November 1811 The Prince Regent, November 1811 William Horsfall, Fall 1811 B, November 1811 Ned Ludd and the Prince Regent, December 1811 George Mellor, Christmas Day 1811 Robert Blincoe, 1811 The First Tech Titans

PART II Metropolis of Discontent

George Mellor, Winter 1812 Anna Lætitia Barbauld, February 1812 Ned Ludd, Winter 1812 Gravener Henson, February 1812 B, February 1812 George Mellor versus John Booth, Winter 1812 Mary Godwin, February 1812 Richard Ryder, February 14, 1812 The Prince, February 1812 Lord Byron, Winter 1812 Ned Ludd, Winter 1812 Lord Byron, February 27, 1812 Ned Ludd, February 27, 1812 William Horsfall, February 27, 1812 George Mellor and Ned Ludd, March 1812 Lord Byron, March 1812 George Mellor and Ned Ludd, March 1812 Two Centuries of Disruption

PART III Breaking Frames, Breaking Bones

The Prince Regent, Spring 1812 William Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley, March 1812 George Mellor, Spring 1812 B and the Spies, April 1812 William Horsfall, Spring 1812 Lord Byron, Spring 1812 The Battle of Rawfolds Mill, April 1812 William Cartwright, April 1812 Gravener Henson, April 1812 Lady Ludd, Spring and Summer 1812 Insurrection, April 1812 George Mellor, April 1812 Ned Ludd, April 1812 William Horsfall, April 28, 1812 An Involuntary Machine, 1800s

PART IV More Value than Work or Gold

The Prime Minister, May 1812 Lord Byron, May 1812 Captain Francis Raynes, May 1812 B, May 1812 George Mellor, May 1812 Ned Ludd, June 1812 Gravener Henson, June 1812 Mary Godwin, Summer 1812 Edmund Cartwright, June 1812 The Prince Regent, June 1812 Ned Ludd, July 1812 Gravener Henson, July 1812 George Mellor, Fall 1812 Lady Ludd, Fall 1812 B, Fall 1812 Captain Francis Raynes, Fall 1812 Mary Godwin, November 1812 Lord Byron, Winter 1812 Gravener Henson, Winter 1812 Ned Ludd, Winter 1812 The Trial, January 1813

Betrayal No Confession I Forgive Ned Ludd on Trial

The Invention of the Luddites The Prince Regent, February 1813 George Mellor, February 1813 Robert Blincoe, 1813 What the Entrepreneurs Won, June 1813 Gravener Henson, Winter 1813 Charles Ball, 1813 Lord Byron

PART V The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, 1816 The Luddites, or The Modern Prometheus What the Luddites Won Fear Factories

PART VI The Owners of the New Machine Age

Douglas Schifter, 2018 The Great Comet Returns The New Tech Titans, 2018 Fear Factories Redux, March 2020 Gig Workers Rising, November 2020 The New Luddites Christian Smalls, June 2022 Douglas Schifter, 2018 Afterword

Are the Robots Coming for Our Jobs? How Uprisings Against Big Tech Begin

Acknowledgments Discover More About the Author Also by Brian Merchant Selected Bibliography Notes

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