BUSINESS

Risks and rewards of Asia's automation boom

Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 22/03/2021

» The ability of automation to disrupt businesses and economies is not a new phenomenon. In the 1800s the factory system in Europe and the development of mechanised production, particularly in the textiles and manufacturing sectors, transformed the world of work and industry and gave rise to workers' movements that smashed the equipment they said was taking their jobs.