Industrial Productivity

I'm going to argue that the tremendous increases in productivity that we associate with the industrial revolution originate not so much from changes in science or technology or new inventions, where England was far from unique as from changes in attitudes, attitudes towards morality, towards what constituted the good. Attitudes towards property, which became in England individuals long before it did on the continent . Attitudes toward the proper role of government. And together , these attitudes constitute much of what the Luddites were protesting against.