Prof. Ursula Huws
Position
Honorary Visiting Professor
Background/Career
Ursula Huws is the director of the social and economic research consultancy
Analytica, an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Employment Studies and
Honorary Visiting Professor of International Labour Studies at the Working
Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. Formerly 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.
Since 2000 she has been working on several large international projects including
EMERGENCE, looking at the global relocation of employment (www.emergence.nu)
and RESPECT, designed to develop professional and ethical codes of conduct
for socio-economic research in the information society (www.respectproject.org)
Details of her other research, clients and publications can be found on www.analytica.org.uk
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Contact details
analytica@dial.pipex.com
Honorary Visiting Professor Ursula Huws
Working Lives Research Institute,
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel. 020 7320 3019
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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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