Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Work
Dalia Gebrial finds out what climate breakdown means for the future of work, with Jeremy Corbyn, Sarah Jaffe and more.
Tag: jobs
Opinion: Universal Credit Is a Symptom of Britain’s Broken Jobs Market
by Andrew Fisher
Boris Johnson seems to think that cutting the £20 uplift to universal credit will enable him to create high-paid jobs, writes Andrew Fisher. He's living, as Adam Curtis would say, in a dream world.
Novara FM: After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia
What if the automation theorists are wrong? How might we build utopia without them? Aaron Benanav joins James Butler to gaze into the future.
Live: Sunak’s Spending Review
With a public sector pay freeze and cuts to foreign aid, has Rishi Sunak’s spending review shown him to be a typical Tory class warrior? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and James Meadway.
Live: Sunak’s Screeching U-Turn
Rishi Sunak has annnounced an extension to the furlough and, once again, the realities of covid have forced the government into another screeching U-turn. Do the Tories still lack a strategy for dealing with the virus? Plus: Trump’s bizarre twitter vids and Number 10’s new spokesperson. With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial and James Meadway.
Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit
by Matthew Cole
The much-prophesied “jobs apocalypse” of the fourth industrial revolution will likely never materialise. Yet that isn't to say new technologies aren't degrading work, warns Matthew Cole.
Analysis: The Tories’ New Support Scheme Shows They’re Adapting to Our New Reality. The Left Must Do the Same
by James Meadway
While the Tories' new Job Support Scheme is in no way sufficient in meeting the challenge of rebuilding the economy, it does, however, signal a tentative acceptance of the need for developing a longer-term strategy in adapting to our new Covid reality. It is therefore vital, writes James Meadway, that the left forms a response of its own.
Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths
While establishment media jumps at the chance to go on refugee safari in the Channel, Ash Sarkar debunks the myths behind anti-migrant sentiment.
Opinion: From Climate to Jobs, Sunak’s Budget ‘Event’ Falls Short of the Protections We Need
by Grace Blakeley
Unless the government invests in creating millions of new, secure, well-paid green jobs, the ‘recovery’ from the pandemic will be even weaker – if it even comes at all. Grace Blakeley on the chancellor's underwhelming summer statement.
Opinion: Coronavirus Will Accelerate Automation. So Why the Calls for ‘Jobs Jobs Jobs’?
by Aaron Bastani
For more than a decade, a different kind of economy has been emerging all around us. Calls for ‘jobs jobs jobs’ fail to recognise that far from just creating temporary problems for businesses, coronavirus is accelerating changes which were already coming, argues Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Pandemic Labour and the Politics of Job Guarantees
by James Meadway
With issues of power and control at work brought to the fore by the lockdown, the TUC has launched new proposals for a job guarantee. James Meadway examines the challenges such proposals face - particularly in the context of the pandemic - including the risk that a job guarantee could be used against workers.
Explainers: Four Day Working Week
The robots are coming for your jobs – and that’s a good thing. Eleanor Penny responds to the TUC’s call for a four day working week.
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
by Nick Srnicek
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?