{"id":5103,"date":"2026-01-04T20:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:44:38","slug":"labour-must-learn-lessons-from-history-as-automation-hits-jobs-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/04\/labour-must-learn-lessons-from-history-as-automation-hits-jobs-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour must learn lessons from history as automation hits jobs market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Labour government is being urged to manage the rise of workplace automation carefully to prevent mass unemployment and deepening inequality. While retail has already lost 350,000 jobs in a decade, high employment costs are further accelerating the shift toward tech-driven labor. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warns that, similar to the Industrial Revolution, robust training programs are essential to protect at-risk workers. Experts argue that without state intervention, the economic benefits of automation will favor the wealthy while leaving the most vulnerable behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 28, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/28\/labour-must-learn-lessons-from-history-as-automation-hits-jobs-market\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour government is being urged to manage the rise of workplace automation carefully to prevent mass unemployment and deepening inequality. While retail has already lost 350,000 jobs in a decade, high employment costs are further accelerating the shift toward tech-driven labor. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warns that, similar to the Industrial Revolution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}