Sheffield cutlers and scissor-grinders engaged in Luddite-affiliated machine-breaking and intimidation against masters introducing labour-saving machinery. Sheffield Luddism was connected to the wider radical tradition of the Sheffield Corresponding Society and took a more political character than in Nottinghamshire.
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