Ursula Huws

Ursula Huws
Born	1947
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Courtauld Institute of Art London Metropolitan University

Ursula E Huws (born 1947) is a Welsh political economist known for her work on teleworking.

Early life and education

Huws attended Llanrwst Grammar School and Loreto College Llandudno in Wales and then completed her A Levels at the Oxford High School for Girls in 1965. Huws graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in the History of European Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art. ^[1] She later completed a PhD at London Metropolitan University in 2009. ^[2]

Career

In 1996, Huws started work at the Institute for Employment Studies. ^[3] Huws has worked at the London Metropolitan University, ^[4] and the University of Hertfordshire. ^[5]

She is the editor of the journal Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, ^[6] and co-edits the book series Dynamics of Virtual Work with Rosalind Gill. ^[7]

Research

Huws is known for her research on technological change and work. In the 1970s she began research on the impacts of computerisation on office work, ^[8] including the health effects of working with video display terminals. ^[9] In a 1981 study, The New Homeworkers, she examined how the combination of computing and telecommunications technologies would lead to new forms of teleworking. ^{[10] [11]} Her subsequent work has examined how advances in technology result in higher job losses for women, ^[12] examined the exploitation of people working from home, ^[13] and tracked the increased use of virtual assistants at work. ^[14]

Selected publications

• Huws, Ursula; Centre, Leeds Trade Union and Community Resource and Information (1982). Your Job in the 80s. London: Pluto Pr. ISBN   978-0-86104-365-1. ^[15]
• Huws, Ursula. The new homeworkers : new technology and the changing location of white-collar work. OCLC   59028012.
• Huws, Ursula (2003). The Making of a Cybertariat . New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN   978-1-58367-088-0. ^[16]
• Huws, Ursula (2014). Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age. ^[17]
• Huws, Ursula (2020). Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies. ^[18]

Honors and awards

Huws was elected a fellow of Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. ^[19]

References

1. Huws, Ursula (1985). "Hiraeth". In Heron, Liz (ed.). Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties. Virago Press Limited. pp. 171–187. ISBN   978-0-86068-596-8.
2. "Ursula Huws - curriculum vitae" (PDF). Analytica Publications. March 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
3. "New associate fellow for IES". Management Services ; Enfield. Vol. 40, no. 4. April 1996. p. 6.
4. Evans-Pughe, Christine (2003-11-19). "The cyberserfs". The Independent. p. 48. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
5. "Ursula Huws". NYU Press. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
6. "Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation". Pluto Journals. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
7. "Dynamics of Virtual Work | Editorial board". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
8. Huws, U. The Impact of New Technology on Women’s Employment in West Yorkshire, Leeds Trade Union and Community Resource and Information Centre, 1980
9. Todd, Roger (1983-01-05). "Computers 'can put you off sex'". Daily Mirror. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
10. Bertin, Imogen (2000). The teleworking handbook : new ways of working in the information society. Internet Archive. Kenilworth : TCA, the Telework, Telecottage and Telecentre Association. pp. 18, 26, 29, 34, 35. ISBN   978-0-9528492-2-3.
11. McCarthy, Helen (2022). "Flexible Workers: The Politics of Homework in Postindustrial Britain". Journal of British Studies. 61 (1): 1–25. doi: 10.1017/jbr.2021.126 . ISSN   0021-9371.
12. Lewis, James (1983-01-05). "Technology 'cuts jobs for women'". The Guardian. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
13. Boseley, Sarah (1994-09-13). "Homeworkers 'desperate and exploited'". The Guardian. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
14. Rose, Barbara (2004-10-24). "Virtual assistants connect to work via 'Net". Lansing State Journal. p. 109. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
15. Review of Your Job in the Eighties
    • Sykes, Geraldine (1982-06-10). "'Chips' down and here to stay". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
16. Review of The Making of a Cybertariat
    • Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole (2004). "Review of The Making of a Cybertariat. Virtual Work in a Real World". International Review of Social History. 49 (3): 531–533. ISSN   0020-8590. JSTOR   44582862.
    • Evans-Pughe, Christine (2003-11-19). "The cyberserfs". The Independent. p. 48. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
17. Reviews of Labour in the Global Digital Economy
    • Hanlon, Mary (2015). "Review of Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age, Huws, Ursula". The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie. 40 (4): 567–570. ISSN   0318-6431.
    • Fiori, Nicholas; Berardi, Franco “Bifo”; Dyer-Witheford, Nick; Huws, Ursula (2017). "The Precarity of Global Digital Labor". Women's Studies Quarterly. 45 (3/4): 321–326. ISSN   0732-1562. JSTOR   26421142.
    • Downey, Gregory J.; Huws, Ursula (2015). "Review of Labor in the Global Digital Economy. The Cybertariat Comes of Age, HuwsUrsula". International Review of Social History. 60 (3): 518–519. ISSN   0020-8590. JSTOR   26394817.
18. Review of Reinventing the Welfare State
    • Cangiani, Michele (2023-04-03). "Review of Ursula Huws, Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies Review of Ursula Huws, Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies, London: Pluto Press, 2020, 209 pp: London: Pluto Press, 2020, 209 pp" . Forum for Social Economics. 52 (2): 218–222. doi:10.1080/07360932.2022.2088589. ISSN   0736-0932.
19. "New Academicians" (PDF). Social Science Bulletin. No. 9. Academy of Social Sciences. 2005. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2024-01-19.

Further reading

• Huws, Ursula (1985). "Hiraeth". In Heron, Liz (ed.). Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties. Virago Press Limited. pp. 171–187. ISBN   978-0-86068-596-8.

External links

• Ursula Huws publications indexed by Google Scholar