Against technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism

Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-277

  Jones, Steven E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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