How did workers respond to the Industrial Revolution, and how did their vision of society compare to industrialists?

Many workers in different towns resisted the placing of labor saving machines where they lived. Some handicrafts, like the Luddites, attacked entire factories and smashed machines. Workers eventually became organized enough to rise up against capitalism, improve working conditions, limit hours, and gain higher wages. Other workers, industrialists, promoted utopian socialism and materialism. Those who promoted utopian socialism believed that there could be a perfect society only if technicians and engineers ruled the nation. Materialism, another society, was to believe to be built from relationships built into production. People who believed these to processes of society could work, wanted to improve society as a whole, not just for the individual like some workers.

Comic

 of Luddites smashing machines