Weavers' Uprising

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Weavers' Uprising (German:Weberaufstand) refers to late medieval weavers' uprising from 1369 to 1371 or the Silesian Weavers' Uprising of 1844.

Silesian Weavers' Uprising[]

In 1844, several thousand weavers smashed the newly-introduced machinery that had driven down their wages in Silesia. Thereafter, the Prussian government repressed them with great brutality. This uprising attracted extensive attention among then German thinkers and writers such as Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx.

In Literature[]

Heine's well-known work "The Silesian Weavers" premiered in Vorwärts!, depicting this uprising.