Being a Luddite implies that someone is against automation. Being against offshoring of manufacturing to the 3rd does NOT make one a Luddite. With automation the job disappears, with offshoring the job gets transferred but not destroyed. See the difference?
Job loses to offshoring and job loses to global labor arbitrage are totally different beasts altogether.
Being a Luddite implies that someone is against automation.
That is what we have been told it means. That is why I encouraged some historical reading.