The Intelligence: Workers of the world, delight!
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Labour markets are changing in all kinds of ways, thanks to ageing societies, hot-running economies and technological boosts. It all adds up to a golden age for workers. As part of our series on democracy around the world, we examine the coming election in Britain (09:35). And India steps into the single-malt-whisky game with success (17:17).
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Oro Ogunbei. And I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.1 | Still on our democracy series, but today we're looking a little closer to home. Britain will elect a new parliament soon. |
| 1:29.9 | The Conservatives have been in power for 13 consecutive years, but could their rule be coming |
| 1:35.5 | to an end? |
| 1:37.7 | And much of what has been sold as whiskey in India isn't really. |
| 1:42.6 | But now that some distillers are crafting the genuine single malt article, it's flying off the shelves and winning awards. |
| 1:59.6 | First up there. |
| 2:07.2 | Thank you. First up, then. The mid-2010s were not a good time to be a worker. |
| 2:11.9 | The world was still recovering from the global financial crisis of 2007 to 2009, |
| 2:18.2 | and some 7% of the labour force in the OECD Club of mostly rich countries |
| 2:23.6 | lack to work. |
| 2:25.4 | The main conclusion is that unemployment is the big issue, |
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