Question

9. Which of the following was not a demand of Luddism?
1) Minimum wages
2) Control over the labour of women and children
3) To stop machines
4) Nationalise factories​

Answer 1

Option 4, to nationalize factories was not a demand of Luddism.  

General Ned Ludd started the luddism movement to protect the interest of laborers. Some laborers had been put off from their jobs while some faced cuts in their existing wages due to the introduction of machinery.

Demands of Luddism movement mainly included:

• Minimum wages
• Control over the labor of women and children
• To stop machines

Answer 2

Option 4 to nationalize factories was not a demand of Luddism.  

How Luddism movement have been started?

• General Ned Ludd started the luddism movement to protect the interest of laborers.
• Some laborers had been put off from their jobs while some faced cuts in their existing wages due to the introduction of machinery.

Demands of the Luddism movement were as follows:

• Minimum wages
• control over the labor of women and children
• To stop machines

Later demand for Luddism had been fulfilled.