Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley is worth reading - there is a film based on it . Her father the Rev Patrick was minister at Hartshead Moor Church at the time of the Luddite rebellion.

"Misery generates hate. These sufferers hated the machines which they believed took their bread from them; they hated the buildings which contained those machines; they hated the manufacturers who owned those buildings." ...........Charlotte Bronte

http://www.yas.org.uk/content/treasures/luddites.html