There is a growing sense that the future of work might not unfold in our favour. People are expected to work longer, for less, with less security and fewer protections. Rather than making work easier or more rewarding, we expect the development and application of new technologies, particularly in the areas of automation, computation and artificial intelligence, to disempower us.
Concerns around the degradation of work are not new, but our everyday experience of moving through the world over the last ten or fifteen years tells us that many of the jobs that are now being created are less secure, more stringently managed and paid worse relative to the cost of living than ever before.
It is commonly understood that this world of work has some relation to the proliferation of computational or algorithmic technologies, which are being applied to work in novel ways.
