In the past decades, there has been a gradual shift in the balance of social and political power towards capital, reversing the gains for labour in western Europe and north America deriving from the postwar settlement. This steady erosion of worker security has been critically facilitated by the rise of digital technologies. Were the pattern of recent decades to be sustained, a dystopia would come into view of workers under ever-more tight monitoring and surveillance, with an intensified labour process, depressed incomes and no freedom from work demands even away from the workplace. Alternatively, however, the huge rise in productivity associated with digitalisation could be captured by empowered labour and used to seek more labour rights, such as shorter working time, greater flexibility from a worker’s point of view, more freedom to work from home, a genuine sharing of domestic labour and proper valuation of workers in socialised care.