EDIT: Ah, I see your comment below now, that's fair, I guess I should have used better citations.
In short -- in the period before enclosure, many of the people who became the luddites were allowed to work common land for their own benefit despite not owning it themselves. This was a major source of sustenance for them.
After enclosure, they were deprived of this. The factory owners exploited enclosure to get land to build their factories on. So it wasn't just automation replacing workers, it was also depriving them of a resource (common land) they previous depended on via privatization.
I can't read the whole book but I couldn't find anything in the Amazon article about land or enclosure.
The enclosure wiki article doesn't mention Luddites. The only thing I could guess at is that this process seems to have driven peasants into the cities to become workers in factories. But i thought the luddites were skilled if not educated upper middle class workers(like UAW autoworkers used to be) not peneniless peasants. Although I suppose some of them might have been employed as apprentices and developed the needed skills.
EDIT: Ah, I see your comment below now, that's fair, I guess I should have used better citations.
In short -- in the period before enclosure, many of the people who became the luddites were allowed to work common land for their own benefit despite not owning it themselves. This was a major source of sustenance for them.
After enclosure, they were deprived of this. The factory owners exploited enclosure to get land to build their factories on. So it wasn't just automation replacing workers, it was also depriving them of a resource (common land) they previous depended on via privatization.