Question

What was the basic cause of captain swing movement

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Captin swing was a mythic name.The basic cause of captain swing movement was that due to advent of thresing machines poor labourer lost their livelihood which then earn by working in the rich farmers field so therefore they oppose threshing machines and started to break down them.