CC0 Public Domain The unemployment rate in the UK is jarringly low. At 3.8 per cent – the lowest in nearly 45 years – the last quarter’s figures appear to spit in the face of automation ‘doomsters and gloomsters’. If robots are out to steal our jobs, they’re not doing a very good job of it.
Yet, the recent slew of factory closures, including Swindon’s massive Honda plant and Ford’s Brigend facility, tells a far less reassuring story. This story starts in the 1980s with the huge job losses in dock work and the automotive and textiles industries, concluding with […]
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