
Tag: future of work focus


The Bastani Factor: Is the UK High Street Dead?

Novara FM: ‘Tired From the Heart’: Voices From the Care Sector

Opinion: Why Scrapping Hostile Environment Policies Would Benefit Kids, Parents and Childcare Workers
Miranda Hall and Veronica Deutsch

Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit
Matthew Cole

Analysis: The Frontline of the Struggle Against Platform Capitalism Lies in São Paulo
Callum Cant

Opinion: Big Unions Aren’t Up to the Job Anymore
Lydia Hughes

Opinion: How Laughter Is Building Solidarity Between Care Home Residents and Workers
Pope Lonergan

Novara FM: Work All Day, Work All Night: ‘Sacrificing Your Life’ for the Food Supply Chain

Analysis: A Regime of ‘Flexible Despotism’ Reigns Over Retail Work – Can It Last?
Alex Wood

Analysis: Money Alone Won’t Fix the Care Crisis – We Need a Radical Rethink
Emma Dowling

12 Books for Understanding the Future of Work
Sarah Jaffe, Dalia Gebrial, Jamie Woodcock & Craig Gent

Analysis: Organising in Supermarkets Means Overcoming Barriers in the Sector – and in the Trade Unions
Max O'Donnell Savage

Analysis: ‘Capitalism’s Wet Dream’: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
Alessandro Delfanti

Analysis: Disabled People and Care Workers Must Build Common Cause in the Fight for Better Conditions
Jamie Hale

Analysis: Our Financialised Care System is Built on a House of Cards – We Urgently Need to Rebuild It
Annie Quick and Alice Martin
Care homes in the UK, like much of the care sector, are highly financialised - but there are signs the model is faltering. If we’re going to improve care quality as well as wages and conditions in the sector, we need to build both worker and user-led power, argue Annie Quick and Alice Martin.

Analysis: Why the Decline of High Street Retail Could Have Troubling Consequences for Our Freedom
Alan Bradshaw
Coronavirus is killing the high street, further accelerating us into a world of big data and algorithm-mediated shopping. Alan Bradshaw argues the shift could have dangerous political implications, allowing corporations to structure and rationalise our lives in previously unimagined ways.

Analysis: Supermarket Workers Have Power – It’s Time They Got Organised
Jessica Thorne and Seth Wheeler
Supermarket workers hold significant collective power over the economy - a power only compounded by the pandemic. Despite a history of underorganisation, Jessica Thorne and Seth Wheeler argue that mobilising the sector is now a matter of strategic necessity.