There are aging Detroit factory workers who've lost their jobs to new techniques, temp workers in their 20's doomed to a frustrating decade of data entry without any benefits, men who join local militias or become survivalists to protest what they see as an overreaching federal government. The movement includes women wounded by technology such as the Dalcon Shield and silicon implants. There are men ravaged by atomic testing, Agent Orange, and the Gulf War Syndrome. Contemporary Luddites are mostly a peaceful lot. Few go in for the destructiveness of their ideological precursors.
Personal choice is the most common form of protest.
Glendinning does not own a computer, and she tries her best not to depend on technology for her food, her entertainment or her livelihood. Sale composed his new book on his manual typewriter, but acknowledges he's not always successful at avoiding technology. But some neo-Luddites have taken technophobia to a more radical extreme. Luddism also explains the so-called Unabomber, a terrorist who's sent mail bombs to scientists and corporate executives and written rambling letters to the New York Times expressing his disgust with technology. But you need both.