Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites' struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit in response to today's technological revolution and calls for another sort of not one of violence but rather of intellectually and ethically sound protest.

Basic Books, 1995.
ISBN: 9780201407181. 320 pp.
Softcover. Good+.