Today's revelations that a host of fast food couriers were sacked should concern anyone interested in workers’ rights.
To be sacked by text message or email is a modern scourge that is distasteful enough. But when workers’ fates may lie in the hands of computer algorithms and GPS trackers, it would suggest the UK is on the edge of an alarming new age.
Increased globalisation and automation have brought great advances in the way products can be delivered to people in their homes. But we should not be welcoming all these reforms into our lives with open arms.
