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Ursula Huws is a writer and research
consultant who has, since 1987, been the director of Analytica,
an independent research consultancy. From 1990 to 1995 she was
also a senior lecturer in social research methodology at the
University of North London. She is now an Associate Fellow of
the Institute for Employment Studies.
This list includes most of her major publications relating
to economic development, technological change, and employment.
However it does not include newspaper or magazine articles,
reviews, reports or conference papers except in cases where
these have generated a strong response in the form of requests
to the author for bibliographical information. Publications
are listed in reverse date order. Publications preceded by a
* have restricted circulation only.
The
Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World,
Monthly Review Press, New York and Merlin Press, London,
July, 2003 http://www.monthlyreview.org/cybertariat.htm
When Work Takes Flight: Research Results from the
EMERGENCE project, IES Report 397, Institute for Employment
Studies, 2003
http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=397
‘The Persistence of National Differences in the New Global
Division of Labour in eServices’ in Globalisation, Innovation
and Human Development for Competitive Advantage, Asia Institute
of Technology, Bangkok, December, 2002
Modelling eWork in Europe: Estimates, Models and Forecasts
from the EMERGENCE Project, (with Bates, P.) IES Report 388,
2002 http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=388
Statistical Indicators of eWork: a Discussion Paper,
IES Report, 2002 http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=385
'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
How can we help? Good Practice in Call Centre
Employment, (with Paul, J.) European Trade Union Confederation,
Brussels, 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
eWork in
Europe: Results from the EMERGENCE 18-country Survey
(with O’Regan,
S.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 380, 2001
Where
the Butterfly Alights: the Global Location of eWork
(with Jagger,
N.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 378, 2001
‘Equality and
Telework in Europe’ in The Telework Environment, European Trade Union
Confederation, 2001
“The making of
a cybertariat? Virtual work in a real world.” In Panitch, L.
and Leys, C. (eds)
Socialist Register 2001,
Working Classes, Global Realities ,
‘Der Mythos
der weightless economy’ in Die Neue Őkonomie des
Internet, Das Argument, Zeitschrift für
Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 238, 2000
‘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
An Evaluation
of Homeworking in ACAS (with Siobhan O'Regan and
Sheila Honey), Research Paper 2, Advisory, Conciliation and
Arbitration Service, London, 2000
'Nature, Art and Technology: Towards the Emergence of a New
Relationship?'Leonardo
, MIT Press, Vol 33, No. 1, pp 33-40, 2000.
Virtually There: the
Evolution of Call Centres (with Alan Denbigh), Mitel,
Newport, 1999
Teleworking
and Globalisation(with Nick Jagger and Siobhan
O'Regan), Report No 358, Institute for Employment Studies, Brighton,
1999
'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
Teleworking
and Local Government: What are the Costs and
Benefits?, Local Government Management
Board, London, 1999
'
Women, participation and Democracy in the Information
Society ' conference paper
Citizens at the
Crossroads: Whose Information Society?. Heritage Canada,
London, Ontario, October, 1999
'Teleworking and
telematics' in Women'space, Volume 4 no 1, 1999
'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
'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, 1999
'Party Politics'
in People Management
,24
December, 1998
'Flexibilisierung
und Sicherheit: Auf dem Weg zu einem neuen europäischen
Gleichgewicht', in Zilian, H.G. and Flecker, J (eds), Flexibilisierung - Problem
oder Lösung?. Edition Sigma, Berlin April, 1998
'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
Flexibility
and Security: towards a new European Balance, Citizens Income Trust, 1998
Virtually
Free: Gender, Work and Spatial Choice, NUTEK, Sweden, September,
1997 (co-editor, with Gunnarsson, E. and author of two chapters)
'Autonomy,
power and gender: telematics and the paradox of choice' published in
Swedish as 'Distansarbete Kraver en Valfardsstat' in
Manniskan
Jobbeet & den Nya Industrin, Lars Skold and Gunnar
von Sydow (eds) Svensa Industritjanstemannaforbundet (SIF),
Stockholm, 1997
'Bread and Roses:
reflections on women's politics at the end of the twentieth
century' in Red Pepper, October, 1997
Teleworking:
Guidelines for Good Practice, Institute for Employment
Studies, 1997
Flexible Labour
Markets and Social Protection in Europe, Report to the European
Commission, DGV, 1996
Teleworking
and Rural Development, (with Honey, S. and Morris,
S.) Rural Development Commission, 1996, November, 1996
Teleworking
and Gender, (with Podro, S., Gunnarsson,
E., Weijers, T., Arvanitaki, K. and Trova, V.) Institute for
Employment Studies, 1996
No
Sweat!, Trades
Union Congress, June, 1996
'Gender and Economic
Restructuring in the UK' in Gender, British Council Briefing
Issue 1, British Council in association with Change, 1996
Teleworking
and Gender, European Commission DGV
Equal Opportunities Unit, May, 1996
Teleworking:
an Overview of the Research, Joint publication of the
Department of Transport, Department of Trade and Industry,
Department of the Environment, Department for Education and
Employment and Employment Service, July, 1996
'Le Télétravail',
in Diversification
du Temps de Travail, Itineraires Professionels et Egalité
Professionnelle , Conseil Superieur de
l'Egalité Professionnelle, Ministère des Affaires Sociales,
de la Santé et de la Ville, France, February, 1996
'Training and Flexible
Work' in Flexible
Working, February, 1996
Follow-up to
the White Paper- Teleworking, European Commission Directorate
General V, September, 1994, also published as Social Europe,
Supplement 3, European Commission DGV, 1995
Good Practice
in the Employment of Homeworkers and Teleworkers, ILO, 1996
A Manager's
Guide to Teleworking, Employment Department, May,
1995
Action Programmes
for the Protection of Homeworkers, ILO, 1995
'Teleworking and
Training for Women' in Franceskides, R. and De Troy, C. (eds)
A Wider
Vision: Reflections on Women's Training, IRIS, 1995
Home
Truths:
Results from the NGH National Homeworking Survey, National Group
on Homeworking, August, 1994
'Teleworking: facing
up to the future' in Health, Safety and
Environment Bulletin, July, 1994
'Teleworking in
Britain', Employment
Gazette, February, 1994
Teleworking
in Britain, Employment Department
Research Series, October, 1993
Employment and
Training in London, West London TEC for the London
TECs Steering Group, Summer, 1993
Employment and
Training in London, Results from the 1992 London TECs Employment
and Training Survey, 1993 Panel Update Report,
London TECs Employment and Training Survey Steering Group, 1993
Technology
Requirements Related to the Management of Telework , Commission of the European
Communities Directorate General XIII, 1993
'Reflections on
Twenty Years Research on Women and Technology', in Mitter and
Rowbotham, eds, Women Encounter Technology, UN University Instititute of
Technology and Routledge, 1995
Employment and
Training in London, Results from the 1992 London TECs Employment
and Training Survey, London TECs Employment and
Training Survey Steering Group, 1992
*Teleworking:
Case Studies, with Podro, S, Interim
Report to the Employment Department, 1992
*The Management
of Teleworking, Interim Report to the
Employment Department, 1992
Market
Implementation of Teleworking in Rural Environments : Case Studies, Report to the
European Commission, DG XIII, 1992
Towards a Taxonomy
of Telework, Report to the European
Commission, DG XIII, 1992
*Employment
and Training in AZTEC, Results from the London TECs
1992 Employment and Training Survey, AZTEC, 1992
*Employment
and Training in LETEC, Results from the London TECs
1992 Employment and Training Survey, LETEC, 1992
*Employment
and Training in North London TEC, Results from the London TECs
1992 Employment and Training Survey, North London TEC, 1992
*Employment
and Training in North West London TEC, Results from the London TECs
1992 Employment and Training Survey, North West London TEC, 1992
*Employment
and Training in South Thames TEC, Results from the London TECs
1992 Employment and Training Survey, South Thames TEC, 1992
*Employment
and Training in West London TEC, Results from the London TECs
1992 Employment and Training Survey, West London TEC, 1992
*Teleworking
in Britain: Prevalence and Employer Attitudes , Interim Report to the
Employment Department, 1992
Changes in the
West London Economy, West London TEC, 1992
*The Impact
of the Single European Market on the Economy of Leicester , Leicester City Council, 1992
Gertie
Roche, Policy
Research Unit, Leeds Polytechnic, 1992
The Impact of
the Single European Market: How British Counties Compare, Empirica UK, 1991 (special
editions produced for Sheffield City Council and South Glamorgan
County Council with additional chapters on their own local
economies)
'What is a Green-Red
Economics?: the Future of Work' Z, September, 1991
'The Local Industrial
Impact of the Single European Market', in Local Government Policy
Making, March, 1991
'Telework:
projections', in Futures, January, 1991
'The Global
Restructuring of Service Industries and its Implications for Women'
in IRENE
Newsletter, Industrial Restructuring Network Europe,
March, 1991
'Monitoring the
Flexible Workforce', in Labour Market Statistics For
The 90s,
Statistics Users Council, December, 1990
'Equality for Whom?
Tensions between the Individual and Collective Aspirations of
Women in the Workplace' in, The Construction of
Sex/Gender. What is a Feminist Perspective?, Swedish Council for Research
in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 1990
'Bad Attitudes:
the Processed World Anthology' (review article) in Science as Culture
1992
Public Attitudes
to Biotechnology in the UK, interim report to the European
Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,
1990
*The Impact
of the Single European Market on the Economy of Sheffield, Empirica UK, 1990
*The Impact
of the Single European Market on the Economy of Hammersmith
and Fulham, Empirica UK, 1990
*The Impact
of the Single European Market on Mid- Glamorgan's Economy, Empirica UK, 1990
*The Impact
of the Single European Market on South Glamorgan's Economy, Empirica UK, 1990
'Women's Health
at Work', in Silent Health, Camerawork, 1990
'Grasping the
Political Nettle: Job Design' in Women and the Built
Environment Quarterly, Issue 14: the Office, 1990
Case Studies in
Conditions
of Work Digest: Telework, International Labour Office,
1990
'Pinning down the
mobile worker' in Practical Computing, March 1990
Telework: Towards
the Elusive Office (with Korte, W., and Robinson,
S.) John Wiley, 1990
Negotiating
Equality, Workers Education Association,
Studies for Trade Unionists Series, October l989
What Price
Flexibility?: the Casualisation of Women's Employment,
(co-author
with Hurstfield, J. and Holtmaat, R.), Low Pay Unit, September
l989
'Uprooting the
Office', in Practical Computing, September, 1989
The Impact of
Mass Immigration from Hong Kong on the UK Economy , (the 'Corry Report' -
co-author), with Corry, B., Duffy, G., Bowers, J., Outram, Q.,
Driver, K, Neuburger, H., South China Morning Post, July 1989
'Danger: women
at work', New
Statesman & Society, March l989
'Consuming Fashions',
New Statesman
& Society, August l988
Negotiating
for Equality, a guide to tackling sex discrimination in collective
agreements, Equal Opportunities Commission,
l988
Women's Employment
in Brent, Brent Local Economy Resource
Unit, for the London Borough of Brent, 1988
Women Working,
A Woman's Guide to Rights at Work , Channel 4 Publications, l988
Job Search Pack
for ILEA Manual Workers, Inner London Education
Authority, l988
'Remote Possibilities:
some difficulties in the analysis and quantification of telework
in the UK', in Telework: development of a
new form of work organisation, eds Korte, W., Steinle, W.,
and Robinson, S., North Holland, 1988
'Bargaining for
Equality', Labour Research, April 1987
Equal Opportunities
for Local Authority Workers: the Trade Union Experience in Seven
London Boroughs, London Strategic Policy Unit,
Empirica, 1987
VDU Hazards
Handbook, London Hazards Centre,
1987
Home Sweet
Workplace: Report of a survey into
the employment needs of people with severe disabilities with
particular reference to homeworking, GLC Equal Opportunities
Group, 1986 (co-author with Ashok, H. and Hall, J.)
The Potential
for Decentralised Electronic Working in the Banking, Insurance
and Software Industries in the UK, European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1986
'Interactive networks
come to MFR', in Cases in Information
Technology ,
ed Brown, D., Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986
'The effects of
AI on women's lives', in Artificial Intelligence for
Society, ed
Gill, K.S., John Wiley, 1986
'Challenging
Commodification', in Very Nice Work if you Can
Get it: the Socially Useful Production Debate, Spokesman, 1985
Who
Cares?, a
survey of childcare facilities in Greater London, GLC Equal
Opportunities Group, 1985
'Ten years of women's
employment' in The Invisible Decade, eds Ashton, G. and Bannerjee,
L., Gower Press, 1985
'Hiraeth' in
Truth Dare
or Promise: Girls Growing up in the Fifties, Heron, L (ed), Virago, 1985
'Le moderne
lavoratrici a domicilio', in Terminal Donne, eds Manacorda, P.M. and
Piva, P., Studi e Richerche 46, Edizioni Lavoro, Rome 1985
'The Global Office:
Information Technology and the Relocation of White-collar work'
in Third
World Trade and Technology Conference Papers , Third World Information
Network, 1985
'Terminal Isolation:
the Atomisation of Work and Leisure in the Wired Society', in
Making
Waves, Radical Science 16, Winter/Spring 1985
Keying into
Careers: Opportunities for Keyboard Operators in the GLC's Central
Reprographic Service and Central Computer Service, Greater London Council Equal
Opportunities Group, 1984
Sweated Labour:
Homeworking in Britain Today, Low Pay Unit, 1984 (with
Bisset, L.)
The New
Homeworkers, Report of a Research
Project Commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission,
Low Pay Unit, 1984
'The Runaway Office
Jobs', International
Labour Reports, March-April, 1984
'Society at Work:
The New Homeworkers', New Society, 22 March, 1984
'New Technology
Homeworkers', Employment Gazette,
January, 1984
Office Work
and Information Technologies, Economic Policy Group - Strategy
Document No 1, Greater London Council, 1983 (co-author)
'Opening Address,
ISIS International Conference on New Technology and Women's
Employment', ISIS Bulletin, Geneva, Autumn 1983
Your Job in
the Eighties, Pluto Press, 1982
'Chips on the Cheap:
South East Asian Women Pay the Price', in Scarlet Women No 14, January, 1982
'Domestic Technology:
liberator or enslaver?' in Scarlet Women, No 14, January 1982, reprinted
in Sweeping Statements:
Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement 1981-1983, eds Kanter, Lefanu,
Shah and Spedding, The Women's Press, 1984
New Technology
and Women's Employment: Case Studies from West
Yorkshire,
Equal Opportunities Commission, 1982
The Impact of
New Technology on Women's Employment in West Yorkshire , Leeds Trade Union and
Community Resource and Information Centre, 1980
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