A First-Person Perspective of a Factory Worker

Factory worker’s first person perspective
In the year 1812, there occurred a series of events that would proceed to shape the course of history as we now know it. It involves the flamboyant business people of Britain, operating mills and factories, who for long had unsettled disputes amongst themselves. The word we heard on the streets and rumor mills spread around like wildfire of the undeclared war between the Luddite community, who had declared war against two key individuals, Mr. William Horsfall and Mr. Williams Cartwright. Both were established and seasoned business-oriented individuals interested in controlling mills around the area. Mr. Horsfall, on the one hand, privately held and managed his mill, Otiwells, whereas his counterpart Mr. Cartwright similarly held the property under the business name Rawfold mills.
Interestingly enough, they were both targets for the Luddite community, who for a while had been carrying out plans to raid and wreak havoc to these men and their business establishments. The factory workers, including myself, saw this first hand. We saw Horsfall openly despising the Luddite community, often calling them out. The common characteristic they shared is that they had mills that had employed hundreds of us, and they knew we were dependent on them. Horsfall’s mill, in particular, had hired close to 400 men, who earned a living from their activity. For their businesses to grow exponentially, both Horsfall and Cartwright deemed it fit to employ machines to mechanize operations in their factories. In his eyes, as a strategic business leader, he considered it as a fit mechanism to cut costs on labor and increase his revenue through timely and calculated profits. Cartwright also believed in the mechanization of activities through machine automation.
We significantly relied on employment from the mills, which meant that we were at risk of losing our primary source of livelihood. At the time, our community was vulnerable, and we morphed into desperate individuals who sought to establish their stand as a union of solidarity. Often, we walked to work from West Yorkshire. To be pushed to such limits, we felt deprived of our lifestyle, including wheat, beef, and mutton. We even sang about it in our songs. As a result, we prepared a scheme to attack the machinery at Horsfall and Cartwright’s mills, as this was the only way we would get noticed. The corporations and the state were our enemies, and thus we planned to rattle them. Our culture was based on farming and hard-task jobs such as cropping, and we were a lot of wild and reckless men.
As the rumors of the attack on Horsfall and Cartwright spread, both men caught wind of the intent we had to launch an attack on the machinery. As this was the case for both of them, they decided to wait for the combat and made relatively adequate preparations on their property to ward off any intruders.
On Horsfall’s property, Ottiwells mills restructured renovations to transform the mill into a fort, where he could easily monitor movements from outsiders. He constructed a wall to protect the property, ribbed with slits and gun openings. For this provision, he employed some colleagues working in the mill to be on-guard and take shifts in staying a...