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In the movement for ''Swaraj{{W|Swaraj}}'' (home rule), Gandhi believed in a revolution of production, saying "It is not about getting rid of the tiger and keeping the tiger's nature". Saying "it is better for a machine to be idle than a man to be idle", Gandhi rejected the factory model of industrialization. He raised money to offer a reward for someone to invent a spinning wheel that could employ people in the same way, while producing more thread. | In the movement for ''Swaraj{{W|Swaraj}}'' (home rule), Gandhi believed in a revolution of production, saying "It is not about getting rid of the tiger and keeping the tiger's nature". Saying "it is better for a machine to be idle than a man to be idle", Gandhi rejected the factory model of industrialization. He raised money to offer a reward for someone to invent a spinning wheel that could employ people in the same way, while producing more thread. | ||
=== Schumacher: ''Small is Beautiful'' === | === Schumacher: ''Small is Beautiful'' and intermediate technology === | ||
[[E. F. Schumacher|E. F. "Fritz" Schumacher]] was an economist who acted as an advisor to governments. The concept of ''intermediate technology'', or ''appropriate technology'', was promoted by [[E. F. Schumacher]] from the 1950's through the 1970's,<ref name="Varma">[https://www.unm.edu/~varma/print/BSTS_Schumacher.pdf E. F. Schumacher: Changing the Paradigm of Bigger Is Better], Roli Varma, 2003.</ref> culminating in the publication of his book ''[[Small is Beautiful]]''. | [[E. F. Schumacher|E. F. "Fritz" Schumacher]] was an economist who acted as an advisor to governments. The concept of ''intermediate technology'', or ''appropriate technology'', was promoted by [[E. F. Schumacher]] from the 1950's through the 1970's,<ref name="Varma">[https://www.unm.edu/~varma/print/BSTS_Schumacher.pdf E. F. Schumacher: Changing the Paradigm of Bigger Is Better], Roli Varma, 2003.</ref> culminating in the publication of his book ''[[Small is Beautiful]]''. |