Empowering Workers

There's a great deal of anxiety about the current state of the labor market, and especially the employment opportunities available to less advantaged members of society.The post-war growth in wages has stagnated and, in some places, reversed.More workers than ever are employed on precarious contracts, working shifts on demand and with no guarantee of future employment.Technology has enabled greater surveillance and monitoring of staff, in the office and at home, during work hours and outside of them.And though the amount of time that individuals spend at work has declined in recent decades, progress on this front has been dishearteningly slow. 1 In this constellation of factors, some commentators see the beginnings of a social crisis. 2Others believe that we're already in the depths of one.