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Swing Riots
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http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxP-Swing_Riots.htm
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A widespread uprising by the rural workers of the arable south and east of England in 1830. The rioters, largely impoverished and landless agricultural labourers, sought to halt reductions in their wages and to put a stop to the introduction of the new threshing machines that threatened their livelihoods.
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