Rise of robots fuels slavery threat for Asian factory workers - analysts
by Kieran Guilbert

Thomson Reuters Foundation    Translate This Article
12 July 2018

On 12 July 2018 Thomson Reuters Foundation reported: The rise of robots in manufacturing in Southeast Asia is likely to fuel modern slavery as workers who end up unemployed due to automation face abuses competing for a shrinking pool of low-paid jobs in a 'race to the bottom', analysts said on Thursday (12 July). Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern business systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

Drastic job losses due to the growth of automation in the region -- a hub for many manufacturing sectors from garments to vehicles -- could produce a spike in labour abuses and slavery in global supply chains, said risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.

More than half of workers in Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines -- at least 137 million people -- risk losing their jobs to automation in the next two decades, the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

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