Inevitably, there were eruptions of social unrest. Recall the Luddites, who responded to the early nineteenth-century mechanization of the textile industry by smashing the new technology, and the Swing Riots, in which workers destroyed threshing machines.
不可避免地，英国爆发了社会动荡。比如应十九世纪初纺织业机械化而起、摧毁新技术的卢德派和工人摧毁打谷机的施荣暴动（Swing Riots）。