On 9th October 1779, a group of English textile workers in Manchester rebelled against the introduction of machinery which threatened their skilled craft.
And so began the first anti-Promethean rebellion of modernity against the will of the Father and its economic application through the early stages of the Industrial Revolution with profits before the welfare — and liberty — of the people and their rural communities. The socio-economic landscape of England would forever change into a servile workforce of the urban proletariat in a single generation.