Standing has predicted the emergence of a new, dangerous “precariat”–a surging social class of people in low-wage, temporary jobs and with no political voice. Their frustrations sound eerily like those of William Leadbeater. This English craftsman who was afraid that machines would destroy his country–or, indeed, the entire universe–was a part of such a dangerous class, and of a movement that laid the foundations of capitalism. Meet the Luddites.
