Why we're threshing machines introduced in England. Describe the result of using threshing machine
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During the Napoleonic wars, prices of foodgrains were high and farmers expanded their production. Fearing a shortage of labour, they began buying the new threshing machines that had come into the market. ... They thought that machines would help them reduce their dependence on labourers.
The poor labourers lived and worked on the land of the rich farmers for their livelihood and survival.The poor labourers thought that the machines were taking away their jobs and livelihoods and so they opposed the threshing machines and started destroying them and threatening the rich farmers to stop using them.
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The first threshing machine was destroyed on Saturday night, 28 August 1830 and, by the third week of October, more than 100 threshing machines had been destroyed in East Kent. As well as attacking the popularly hated threshing machines, which displaced workers, the protesters rioted over low wages and required tithes, destroying workhouses and tithe barns associated with their oppression. They also burned ricks and maimed cows.