Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP
jeevunsandher.bsky.social
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP
@jeevunsandher.bsky.social
🌹 Economist MP who loves the pub

Department for Business and Trade PPS

jeevunsandher.substack.com
So that period was more one of labour enhancing rather than replacing automation.

I think quickest explanation here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

It's transforming our politics in ways we don't properly account for. Why is populism rising across the world? Well you need one common factor ...
Book Review: The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey - LSE Review of Books
In The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation, Carl Benedikt Frey explores automation and its consequences, taking the reader on a long sweep of UK and US industrial histo...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What is most fascinating, and least discussed in popular discourse imo, is how both are (partly) being driven by automation

Automation -> less factories -> atomised workplaces -> fewer unions

Automation -> machines doing manual tasks -> lower labour share
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
That's great to hear, Willow
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM