The future of work

Ursula Huws, the director of Analytica, is often asked to give talks about the future of work and occasionally to write articles about the subject, usually by the sorts of organisations and for the sorts of journals which cannot afford to pay. These activities have to fitted in between the more commercial research activities on which she and her dependants rely for survival. As a result, her published theoretical work is fragmentary and consists of essays, rather than books, with long intervals between them. She lives in hope of a commission which will allow her to develop some of this work more systematically.

Here, for what it is worth, is a selection of those articles and essays which have attracted the most attention:

'The Making of a Cybertariat: virtual work in a real worid', in Panitch, L., and Leys, C. (eds), Socialist Register, 2001 , Merlin Press, UK and Monthly Review Press, USA, 2001
'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 (also published in translation in French and German )
'What is a Green-Red Economics?: the Future of Work' Z , September, 1991 click here to read
'Grasping the Political Nettle: Job Design' in Women and the Built Environment Quarterly, Issue 14: the Office, 1990
'Consuming Fashions', New Statesman & Society, August l988
'Challenging Commodification', in Very Nice Work if you Can Get it: the Socially Useful Production Debate, Spokesman, 1985
'Terminal Isolation: the Atomisation of Work and Leisure in the Wired Society', in Making Waves, Radical Science 16, Winter/Spring 1985
see also various articles and reviews in Red Pepper - details available from www.redpepper.org.uk


this page was last revised on September 16th, 2001					all contents of this page © Ursula Huws, 2001