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August 2, 2019
Who is fearful of automation and what do they want politicians to do about it? This paper,co-authored by Benjamin Allen Stevens and the Munk School’s Peter Loewen, finds a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that Canadians favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration.
J5PE19 London, UK. 17th May, 2017. Cleaners in the CAIWU, the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers' Union who are balloting to strike protest outside the HSBC bank building at Canary Wharf. The cleaners are employed by ISS who refuse to recognise the CAIWU despite most of the cleaners belonging to it and they are threatening to make almost half of them redundant in June. The union say they are picking on those who have been working there longer as they were employed under better terms and conditions than new staff. Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News