Against or With?

During the Industrial Revolution there was a group of people that called themselves the Luddites. They were the people during that period that were against the new technology being invented, which was mostly new machinery. The main actions they performed was destroying the machines in every factory and mill possible. This group was mostly consisted of employes of the factories or mills because they were the ones who were loosing their jobs. The increase in machines and fast pace in the mills took away the jobs of many factory workers during this time. The following letter is a mock primary source and is not real.

This image above shows the Luddites hammering a machine in a factory.

Dear cousin,

Hello, I am writing to you now as I have just gotten home from a long day of my first job at a factory. All of the factory workers, including myself, had to leave the factory early today because the factory I work in had been broken into by a group of Luddites. This group is getting very well known around here but I am sure you have not heard about them yet since you are living in America. The Luddites are against the new technology in the factories so they go around the city trying and sometimes succeed in destroying the machines. My first thought was to be totally against this because of the horrible things they would do to the factories that I am now working in. But as time went on, I have realized that i could be the next factory worker to be fired from my job because of the speed these new machines are working. As of right now I am in between being against and for what the Luddites are doing. Even if I had picked a side, there isn't much I can do as a young girl factory worker who has just gotten their first job. I also can't bear to loose this job because of my family back home. I need to help support my family and their needs as much as I can right now. I thank the industrialization for the opportunity of a job as a factory worker and their help for supporting my family. I hope to see you and your family soon in America and will write you soon.

Love,
Krista