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In 18 forty, i french, and bartomy themonier, had a new patent on a sewing machine. He opened the world's very first machine base clothing manufacturing company. Other french tailors got wind of the invention factory that tamonie had created,. They were very threatened and unhappy, to the point where they burnt his factory down. In the same decade, an american, josiah warren, vented an innovative u continuous feed printing press. This was in te evansville, ohio. A mob of angry union workers destroyed the press and the machines involved. So here we have classic cases of workers threatened and competitors threatened by new technologies. There is a

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