Swing Riots Protests 1830-1831 (1 janv. 1830 – 1 janv. 1831)
Description:
- agrarian protest- Poor harvests in the late 1820s
- introduction of the threshing machine
- winter unemployment as a result of the new machine
- poverty
- agricultural workers were seen as docile and not liable to riot
- they employed the same tactics as the industrial workers/Luddites
- threatening letters
- hayricks burned
- breaking of threshing machines
Ajouté au bande de temps:
Date:
1 janv. 1830
1 janv. 1831
~ 12 months
