Q- Why were threshing machines opposed by poor in England?
Answer- The labours of England got regular in cultivation mainly they got work during harvest time. But after the threshing machine was introduced so maximum farmers buy threshing machine to increase harvesting speed of their crop this leads to increase in unemployment for poor people who work as labour in harvesting crop season. So, Agitated poor opposed threshing machine in England as it snatched the source of livelihood from poor people.