The term Luddism is thrown around as a form of abuse against vested interests resistant to economic/technological change. But the real lesson of its history is that the law and courts should hold powerful companies to account – and protest can help regulate disruptive technologies in a new social compact.
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Simon Deakin
About Simon Deakin
Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. Member of the European Trade Union Institute’s expert group on Transnational Trade Union Rights (TTUR); original signatory of the 2013 TTUR manifesto calling on the EU to respect fundamental social rights in the economic crisis.