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The future of work

A Guardian series examining the forces shaping working life, from technological advances to political crises, and how they impact life for millions of people across the world

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  • A small boat full of people at sea.

    Migrant crisis
    Soaring number of those trapped in Yemen face abuse and starvation, say NGOs

    Urgent funding needed to help people return home as humanitarian crisis reaches critical levels, according to migration organisation
  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

    Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers, gathered over two years in a Guardian investigation
  • Desecheo Island on the Mona Passage viewed from a helicopter flight with the US Coast Guard to Mona Island in Puerto Rico, 9 January 2024.

    Six-metre waves, strong currents, small boats
    Why thousands brave the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico

    Although 43% of Puerto Ricans live in poverty, many from the Dominican Republic see the US territory as a land of opportunity. But is it worth the risk?
  • Two female medics in surgical scrubs, one washing her hands

    Rape and sexual harassment reported by foreign care workers across UK

    Multiple cases of abuse and exploitation have been documented, but many staff feel ‘powerless to complain’ for fear of losing the right to work in the country
    • A table with a cocktail and a laptop sit in the foreground, with scenery of a beach behind. The laptop's screen shows the ocean and beach, but in the middle is a boat full of migrants.

      Egypt
      Economic woes lure digital nomads – but cast others out to sea

    • People wait in line against a wall to talk to a woman with a notebook and lanyard

      Garment workers have lost out on $4bn of severance pay, says rights group

    • In Cairo’s Manshiet Nasser district, a ‘Zabbaleen’ worker collects and sorts waste using the same methods the community has used for more than a century.

      Danger and dignity in some of the world’s vanishing trades – a photo essay

    • A young woman tends to plants on hillside garden

      Back to the land
      Young Italians find la dolce vita in a return to farming

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  • Illustration of humanoid robot and a person chatting together over a water cooler

    ‘Why would we employ people?’
    Experts on five ways AI will change work

  • Illustration of a line of bicycle couriers with bags on their backs going between cars

    Dodging death and immigration officers
    12 hours as a London fast-food rider – and all for £40

  • Andreas Mallis (Perseas Tours) Milos July 2023 Eftihia Stefanidi DSCF1671 Milos island, Greece

    ‘It was hell but the owner said, you have to work’
    Dying from heat in Greece

  • A dozen labourers, many appearing to be young, hoe a field

    ‘It’s slavery for modern times’
    How children of 12 toil in Colorado’s fields

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  • Venezuelans remain in northern Mexico in fear of US deportations<br>epa10908195 A man holds a Venezuelan flag as a group of migrants travel on the train known as 'The Beast' in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 07 October 2023 (Issued 08 October 2023). Thousands of Venezuelans are stranded on Mexico's northern border, as they fear the US government direct deportations to Venezuela. United States Department of Homeland Security said on 05 October that the US will resume direct repatriations of Venezuelan nationals who cross the border unlawfully and do not establish a legal basis to remain. EPA/Luis Torres

    Venezuelan migrants boost economies of South American countries, studies find

  • Berline Augustin, a black woman with long braids, wears a chequered shirt and carries an orange food-delivery rucsac on her back. Behind her the walls are made from concrete blocks.

    Chlorine attacks and daily harassment: why Mexico’s female delivery drivers are organising

  • Palestinian labourers make their way through the main Israeli terminal in the West Bank city of Bethlehem to get to their jobs in Israel.

    Almost 400,000 Palestinians have lost jobs due to war, report says

  • Young people protest at Cop27 in Egypt in 2022.

    Young people can help solve the climate crisis. Let’s give them a seat at the table

    Rachel Ruto and Liesbet Steer
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