Phil Jones is a research affiliate at Autonomy and a PHD researcher at the University of Sussex. He is currently writing a book about tasking and crowdwork.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe robots are already here, so why is unemployment so low?
Unemployment is at a 45 year low. But the official statistics conceal a growing crisis of joblessness and underemployment.
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Published in: ourEconomyThe California workers’ rights bill is a start, but we need a more radical approach to the ‘gig economy’
Stronger rights for Uber and Amazon workers are essential. But we must also address the economic context that makes...
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Published in: ourEconomyBrand You: how employability came to dominate our lives
By turning our leisure hours into work, employability is concealing a broken labour market and damaging our mental health.