Tag: Weakness

The Weakness of Labor, Not Automation, Is the Greatest Challenge Facing Workers

Anxiety that automation is coming for workers’ jobs has reached a fever pitch. But talk of robots replacing humans often conceals a less complicated reality: management uses technology to undemocratically reorganize and intensify labor.

Source: The Weakness of Labor, Not Automation, Is the Greatest Challenge Facing Workers

Economy will be weak and in need of support after pandemic, say top economists in 2021-22 survey

Australia’s economy will limp along after recovering from the pandemic, failing to regain the growth it had either in the years leading up to the crisis or the much higher growth in the decades before.

Source: Economy will be weak and in need of support after pandemic, say top economists in 2021-22 survey