who is captain swing ? explain in brifly
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"Captain Swing" was the mythical leader of the laboring rural poor who rose up to destroy threshing machines in England in 1830. The number of rural laborers in England had been swollen by the return of sailors and soldiers after the Battle of Waterloo (1815), as about 250,000 men were demobilized. This glutted the labor market, providing a permanent surplus of labor and reducing the wages of those who could find work to subsistence level.