Swing Riots Protests 1830-1831 (1 jan 1830 ano – 1 jan 1831 ano)

Descrição:

- 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