I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) | The Nib
What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
Single Moms: Less Housework, More Leisure Than Married Moms | Psychology Today
Without a spouse in the house, single moms do fewer chores and get more sleep.
Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating eldercare | MIT Technology Review
The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened?
The state of the labour movement in Malaysia (Part 1) – Malaysia Trades Union Database
What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
PATRICK GATHARA - The Black Spot: Why the Kenyan Road System Is Designed to Kill | The Elephant
The Philippines' Dangerous Dependence on the Exploitation of its People – New Naratif
While it started labour export as a stop-gap measure, the Philippine government now aggressively exports Filipinos. Labour migration has helped address the short-term needs of migrant families and the economy, and has benefitted migrant-receiving countries, local elites and the government, but also poses serious long-term problems to migrants, Filipinos, and the country.
The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou - Tempest
Researcher Yige Dong explains the Foxconn iPhone factory uprising in China and its relationship to the broader uprising in China.
This has sparked a new wave of attention on China’s labor politics since the pandemic and provoked some response among overseas Chinese communities, though less prominent for now than the global diaspora mobilization in solidarity with the protester in Beijing’s Sitong Bridge last month. It provides a telling background to the broader social uprising in China sparked by the COVID-19 lockdowns.