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Technological unemployment has featured in debates since the Industrial Revolution. But whereas machinery in the 19th century took over physical tasks, AI – particularly GenAI – encroaches upon intellectual and creative capabilities.

Research, Editor's PicksGeorgina SavageNovember 25, 2024AI, work, ethics of AI, capitalism

Informal Workers in the Global South and the Global Labor Movement

Today, among many Marxists and labor scholars in the Global North, the largest segments of the world’s workforce is, amazingly, rarely considered or conceptualized as part of the working class. The segment of the workers I´m referring to is the world’s informal workers, especially the informal workers in the Global South and in Africa.

ResearchRachel WolfeApril 22, 2024capitalism, labor movement, South America, Africa, class-consciousness