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What the future of work might look like
With global corporations like Amazon and Uber driving AI advances and the increase in surveillance during the Covid crisis, now is the time to get clued up on how technological advance can be made to work for the workers, says ANDY BAIN
Future of Work

AS PART of its series of centenary events, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) is hosting a Future of Work conference with a great line-up of speakers.  

Developments in robotics and AI have recently been sped up by some big businesses to capitalise on the pandemic crisis, as capital usually does.

Unless controlled, these new technologies will add to the unemployment and underemployment numbers, which were growing pre-Covid and will massively escalate due to the British government’s managing of the crisis.

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