Why were threshing machines opposed by the poor in England?

Threshing machines were opposed by the poor. in England due to the following reasons:
(i) Over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the English countryside changed dramatically. open fields and common lands were replaced by enclosures that were created by the individual landlords. This change was encouraged by more demand for food grains due to rise in population’ The landlords brought more and under cultivation by taking control over pasture lands, cutting up forest commons and taking over marshes.
(ii) The poor peasants, on the other hand, were displaced from the land. They moved to southern counties in search of work as agricultural labourers. But during the Napoleonic wars, prices of foodgrains rose. There was expansion of agriculture but fearing a shortage of labour, the farmers began using threshing machines. Ai the same time they complained of the insolence of labourers, their drinking habits, and the difficulty of making them work. They thought that machines would help them reduce their dependence on labourers. Under these conditions, machines deprived workmen of their livelihood. For the poor, the machines had become a sign of bad times. They tramped from village to village and those with uncertain jobs lived in fear those with uncertain jobs fear of a loss of their livelihood. So, they opposed the threshing machines.