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  • Platformisation of Work

What needs to change for platform workers? (video)

The most recent video of FES Future of Work explains what needs to change for platform workers to improve their working conditions.

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  • Digital Europe

Made in Serbia: cheap labour in the Southeast European textile sector

This short documentary shows why the textile sector in Southeast Europe have become a pool of cheap labour.

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  • AI, Algorithms, & Data

AI in in Retail

Recent technological developments in retail are linked to AI and automation. The digital transformation in retail needs to include workers’ perspective.

  • Publication

Mapping the Labour Market Trends and Trade Union Policies for Young Teachers and Other Education Personnel

Together with ETUCE and CELSI the FES Competence Centre on the Future of Work published a new research study.

  • Event
  • Platformisation of Work

PhD Summer School 2022: Trajectories of platform capitalism and platform work

The PhD Summer School 2022 is organised by FES Competence Centre on the Future of Work and Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and will take place from 7-10 September, 2022 in Berlin. Application process is now open. ...

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Ban unpaid & unfair internships

Competence Centre on the Future of Work and the ETUC Youth Committee demand the ban of unpaid and unfair internships.

Latest Publications

Inside the black box

Arora, Payal ; Calegari, Roberta | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, May 2026

how algorithms are made - and why it matters

Chasing the AI cloud in Europe

Saari, Leevi ; Wu, Boxi | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., May 2026

handover blindness and implications for EU AI sovereignty

Une vie professionnelle en pleine mutation

Sabanova, Inga | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Décembre 2025

les femmes et l'automatisation sur le marché du travail ; revue de littérature

Changing working lives: women and automation in the labour market

Sabanova, Inga | Bonn : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., December 2025

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