what is captain swing movement
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Captain Swing was a mythical person, used by the poor labourers to threaten the rich landlords, who were replacing workers for machines and which leads to loss of their livelihoods
The Swing movement happened during 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England, in protest of agricultural mechanisation and other harsh conditions.
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Captain Swing, was no real person but the mythical name used by the agricultural labourers to send letters to the landowners to threatened the rich landlords who replacing workers for machines the labour where ask to oppose the threshing machine while the landlord were is started to break those machines.
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