Editing Swing Riots (section)

=== Industrialisation ===
The final straw was the introduction of horse-powered threshing machines, which could do the work of many men.<ref name="harrison249"/><ref name="hobsbawmiv">Hobsbawm/Rude. Captain Swing. Appendix IV</ref> They spread swiftly among the farming community and threatened the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmworkers.<ref name="hobsbawmiv"/> Following the terrible harvests of 1828 and 1829, farm labourers faced the approaching winter of 1830 with dread.<ref name="harrison249"/>