Professor Ursula Huws
Position
(Former Staff member) Professor of International Labour Studies
Background/Career
Ursula Huws is the Professor of International Labour Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. Formerly an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Employment Studies and a senior lecturer in research methodology at the University of North London (1990-1995), she is the author of a large number of books, articles and reports and has lectured widely throughout Europe and in Canada, the United States, Australia, India and Malaysia.
Before becoming a professional researcher, she worked in educational television and publishing, for the Schools Council and for the Leeds Trade Union and Community Resource and Information Centre, as well as playing an active role in various trade union, women’s and community-based organisations. She continues to do voluntary work for bodies as varied as the National Group on Homeworking, the European Federation of Sans Papiers and Women Working Worldwide.
She is currently the UK partner in the WORKS Project, funded by the European Commission under its 6th Framework Programme. For further information go to www.worksproject.be.
She is also the editor of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal Work Organisation, Laboour and Globalisation. For further information go to www.cybertariat.com.
Details of some of her other research, clients and publications can be found on www.analytica.org.uk
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Contact details
Ursula Huws <ursulahuws@analyticaresearch.co.uk>
Publications
Academic books
Author/Co-author
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Telework: Towards the Elusive Office (with Korte, W., and Robinson, S.) John Wiley, Chichester and New York, 1990
Editor
- Virtually Free: Gender, Work and Spatial Choice, NUTEK, Stockholm, Sweden, September, 1997 (co-editor, with Gunnarsson, E. and author of two chapters: ‘Different Spheres; Different Places’ and ‘Precarious Freedom: Freelance Teleworking, Autonomy and Gender in Europe’)
Contributed chapter
- 'The Restructuring of Employment in the Information Society and its Implications for Social Protection' in Work Organization and Social Exclusion in the European Information Society, Campus Frankfurt/M, Frankfurt, 2002
- ‘E-work in a Global Economy’ in Challenges and Achievements in E-business and E-work’, Stanford-Smith, B., Chiozza, E. and Edin, M. (eds) IOS Press, Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington D.C., 2002
- ‘Grenzüberschreitende Verlagerung von eWork: Wo kommen die Jobs hin?’ in eWork: Neue Jobchancen - real oder virtuell? Flecker, J. and Zilian, H.G., (eds) Arbeitsmarktservice, Vienna, 2002
- ‘The Changing Gender Division of Labour in the Transition to the Knowledge Society’ in Rubenson, K. and Schuetse, H.G. (eds) Transition to the Knowledge Society: Policies and Strategies for Inidividual Participation and Learning, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2000
- 'Telearbeit in Europa/Teleworking in Europe' in Arbeit 2002:Zukunft der Frauen/Employment 2002: the Future for Women, Cyba, E. and Knipp, M. (eds) Federal Ministry for Women's Affairs, Austria, in association with the European Commission and Archimedia (bilingual German/English), Vienna, 1999
- 'Beyond Anecdotes: on Quantifying the Globalisation of Information Processing Work', in Mitter and Bastos (eds) Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalised Information Economy, United Nations University Institute of Technology, Routledge, London, 1999
- 'Flexible Labour Markets and Equality Between the Sexes: threat or opportunity?' in Mosconi, N., (ed) Égalité des Sexes en Éducation et Formation, Presses Universitaries de France, Paris, 1998
- 'Distansarbete Kraver en Valfardsstat' in Manniskan Jobbeet & den Nya Industrin, Lars Skold and Gunnar von Sydow (eds) Svensa Industritjanstemannaforbundet (SIF), Stockholm, 1997
Books for more popular audiences, including guides and handbooks
- Reality Check: Managing Real People in a Virtual World, Industrial Society/Capita, London and New York, forthcoming
- How can we help? Good Practice in Call Centre Employment, (with Paul, J.) European Trade Union Confederation, Brussels, 2002
- Teleworking: Guidelines for Good Practice, Institute for Employment Studies, 1997
Journal Articles
- ‘The making of a cybertariat? Virtual work in a real world.’ In Panitch, L. and Leys, C. (eds)
- ‘Societa dell’informazione, occupazione e cittadinanza sociale’ in Mirabile, M.L. (ed) Lavoro e Welfare della New Economy, L’Assistenza Sociale, Oct-Dec 2000
- ‘Un monde materiale: le mythe de l’economie virtuelle’ in Nouvelles Technologies d’Information : Nouvelle Donne Sociale, Critique Communiste 159/160 Autumn 2000
- 'Nature, Art and Technology: towards the Emergence of a New Relationship?', Leonardo , MIT Press, Vol 33, No. 1, pp 33-40, 2000.
- 'Material World: the Myth of the Weightless Economy', in Panitch, L., and Leys, C. (eds), Socialist Register, 1999 ,Merlin Press, UK and Monthly Review Press, USA, 1999
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