Test Driving: ThoughtExchange
In April 2019, Prospect – one of UNI’s affiliates – collaborated with the Young Workers Lab to trial the digital survey tool ThoughtExchange with approximately 770 archaeologists in the ...
Read moreYoung Workers’ Lab
The Young Workers’ Lab is a new pop-up research center in the Future World of Work division of UNI Global Union.
Our aim is to test how digital technologies, data, and power can be shared to democratize access to the collective value of the digital age.
Our research engages with young workers, trade unions big and small, technologists, government, civil society, business, academics, and activists. Check out our articles below for news on what we’ve accomplished so far. The question that guides us is:
How can digital technologies be used by young workers and unions to improve young workers’ job quality and voice in the digital world of work?
Strengthening Union Democracy
By providing a platform for as many members as possible to voice their concerns, a union was in for a ...
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Proving Work
At the heart of the Young Workers’ Lab is a simple question: what in this day and age counts as ‘work’? ...
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