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{{Cquote|It was early in the spring of 1811 that the phenomenon of Luddism first manifested itself in the Midlands, and, in particular, Nottinghamshire.
Yet if the popular understanding of Luddism is as a response to labour-saving technology, then what took place in Nottinghamshire does not necessarily provide a good example. In the early nineteenth century, the destruction of machinery was the response to a number of factors which were leading to the exploitation of working-class artisans in the hosiery trade at this time. Unlike some of the other mechanical devices that Luddites in other areas attacked, the mechanical knitting machine ("stocking frame") was not a new device, having been invented over 220 years before by William Lee in the Nottinghamshire village of Calverton in 1589.
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