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
by Miranda Hall and Veronica Deutsch
Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit
by Matthew Cole
Analysis: The Frontline of the Struggle Against Platform Capitalism Lies in São Paulo
by Callum Cant
Opinion: Big Unions Aren’t Up to the Job Anymore
by Lydia Hughes
Opinion: How Laughter Is Building Solidarity Between Care Home Residents and Workers
by 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?
by Alex Wood
Analysis: Money Alone Won’t Fix the Care Crisis – We Need a Radical Rethink
by Emma Dowling
12 Books for Understanding the Future of Work
by Sarah Jaffe, Dalia Gebrial, Jamie Woodcock & Craig Gent
Analysis: Organising in Supermarkets Means Overcoming Barriers in the Sector – and in the Trade Unions
by Max O'Donnell Savage
Analysis: ‘Capitalism’s Wet Dream’: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
by Alessandro Delfanti
Analysis: Disabled People and Care Workers Must Build Common Cause in the Fight for Better Conditions
by Jamie Hale
Analysis: Our Financialised Care System is Built on a House of Cards – We Urgently Need to Rebuild It
by 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
by 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
by 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.