Weavers' Uprising

Weavers' Uprising (German:Weberaufstand) refers to late medieval weavers' uprising from 1369 to 1371 or the Silesian Weavers' Uprising of 1845.

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.

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