Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ORTIZ Esther
In three years’ time, 42 per cent of task hours will be performed by machines or algorithms and humans will take care of the remaining 58 per cent. New jobs will emerge in fields such as data, employing 133 million people around the world, whilst others, such as postal jobs, will disappear, (…)
, by KAGAN Marc
The New York Times recently profiled life on the Amazon shop floor — chaperoned by Amazon management. Perhaps not shockingly, the result was a fawning portrait of work at Amazon that only a boss could love.
For thirty years, the New York Times’s labor reporter was Steven Greenhouse. (…)
, by COOTE Anna
A study of UBI trials concludes that making cash payments to all is no solution to poverty and inequality.
A study published this week sheds doubt on ambitious claims made for universal basic income (UBI), the scheme that would give everyone regular, unconditional cash payments that are (…)
, by WILLIAMS Zoe
One often hears on the British left the complaint that “middle class” commentators only mention the country’s white working class to criticise nationalist attitudes or to criticise people receiving social security and welfare benefits. But there’s a deeper fallacy here
I do a podcast called (…)
, by WAHL Asbjørn
Large parts of the western working class now seem to gather around right populists, demagogues, and racists. They vote for reactionary and fascistoid political parties. They helped to vote the UK out of the EU and to make Trump president of the world’s superpower number one, and they vote so (…)
, by BROOKS Chris, MOODY Kim
Where’s our economy headed? Soon every factory worker will have to start driving for Uber, and the trucks will drive themselves—at least so the business press tells us.
But Kim Moody, co-founder of this magazine and the author of many books on U.S. labor, paints a different picture. Chris (…)
, by FRYMORGEN Tomasz
Wildcat strikes in informal sectors are challenging unions’ assumptions about where and who to organize.
On August 11, surrounded by 150 wildcatting Deliveroo drivers, a union activist read out a list of concessions won by British couriers, all of whom organized with the Independent Workers (…)
, by HUWS Ursula
The new economy makes it harder than ever to untangle capitalism from our daily lives.
It’s a familiar pattern. First there’s an economic crisis. Then comes an enormous restructuring of capital — and with it a restructuring of labor — throwing past certainties into doubt. Old industries, (…)
, by ALLEN Joe
Workers in the rapidly transforming logistics industry have potentially enormous political and economic power.
It took the United Parcel Service one hundred and eight years to get to its current position in the world today, less than half that time for Walmart, DHL, and FedEx, and just over (…)
, by MARVIT Moshe Z.
Since 2005, Amazon has helped create one of the most exploited workforces no one has ever seen.
In 2007, Stephanie Costello had a boring office job with a lot of downtime that she spent online. She recalls the day she read one of those articles on MSN.com that have become a staple of the (…)
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