The Industrial Revolution changed the mode of production from small workshops to big factories.In the process,many craftsmen lost their jobs and reacted by attacking factories and breaking machinery.In Great Britain,those people were known as

A) common criminals.
B) saboteurs.
C) wreckers.
D) Luddites.
E) union thugs.

Luddites

Originally, a group of early 19th-century English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed threatened their jobs.

Mode of Production

An economic concept referring to the combination of the means of labor (tools, factories, land, etc.) and the method of labor (how work is organized and carried out) to produce goods and services.

Craftsmen

Skilled individuals who create items by hand, often with traditional techniques, in various trades such as carpentry, blacksmithing, and pottery.