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Assessing bias in online surveys using alternative survey modes
Spencer, Neil; Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Coates, Matthew; Huws, Ursula (2022-05-14)Due to concerns that respondents to online surveys are different from populations of interest, parallel offline surveys can be undertaken and results compared. In this article we create a set of principles to compare results ... -
Between a rock and a hard place : the shaping of employment in a global economy
Huws, Ursula (2010-05-13)Introducing this volume, this article discusses how employment practices are shaped in a global economy, asking to what extent national policies and institutions still play a role and the importance of other social, economic, ... -
Break or Weld : trade union responses to global value chain restructuring; introduction
Huws, Ursula (2008) -
Bridges and barriers : globalisation and the mobility of work and workers
Huws, Ursula (2012)This article starts by discussing the global division of labour. To what extent can its spatial patterns be explained by simple economic logic and to what extent is it shaped by specific features of national and local ... -
Competition, Collaboration and Combination: Differences in Attitudes to Collective Organization Among Offline and Online Platform Workers
Holts, Kaire; Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Coates, Matthew (Routledge, 2021-05-31)This chapter focuses on in-depth interviews with a range of different workers for online platforms in Europe to explore the assumption that delivery and driving platform workers’ attitude represent those of working in other ... -
The containment of labour in accelerated global supply chains : the case of Piraeus Port
Hatzopoulos, Pavlos; Kambouri, Nelli; Huws, Ursula (2014)This article presents a case study of the sale of two of the three piers at the formerly state-owned container port of Piraeus, in Greece to a Chinese company, COSCO, formng a crucial hub in the transit of goods to European ... -
Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity : new accumulation through public service commodification
Huws, Ursula (2011-10)This essay argues that 2008 marked a turning point for international capital, with the financial crisis providing an unprecedented opportunity to embark on a new phase of accumulation based, not on what might be called ... -
Crowd Work in Europe : Preliminary results from a survey in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands
Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Joyce, Simon (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, 2016-12-02) -
Defragmenting : towards a critical understanding of the new global division of labour
Huws, Ursula (2007)This paper provides a short introduction to this volume -
Driverless Uber cars are coming to disrupt the sharing economy – but capitalism carries on as usual
Huws, Ursula (2016-08-23) -
The emergence of EMERGENCE : the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour
Huws, Ursula (2007)This paper anatomises a pioneering international research project on the global relocation of telemediated employment. It outlines the intellectual origins of the project in the literature on globalisation, the knowledge ... -
The Emergence of eWork in Europe and Implications for China
Huws, Ursula; Huang, X.; Standen, P. (2001) -
eWork: Consequences for Employment in the Developing World
Huws, Ursula; Standen, P.; Ahuja, S.; Sienthai, S. (2002-05) -
Expression and expropriation : the dialectics of autonomy and control in creative labour
Huws, Ursula (2010)Creative labour occupies a highly contradictory position in modern, global, ‘knowledge-based’ economies. On the one hand, companies have to balance their insatiable need for a stream of innovative ideas with the equally ... -
Fixed, Footloose or fractured : work, identity and the spatial division of labor in the twenty-first century city
Huws, Ursula (2006-03)The combination of technological change and globalization is bringing about fundamental changes in who does what work where, when, and how. This has implications which are profoundly contradictory for the nature of jobs, ... -
Fixo, volátil, ou dividido : O trabalho, a identidade e a divisão espacial do trabalho no séc. XXI
Huws, Ursula (2006-03)A combinação da mudança tecnológica com a globalização está a provocar alterações fundamentais no que se refere a quem faz que tipo de trabalho, onde, quando e como. Isto tem implicações profundamente contraditórias para ... -
Flexing the Balance of Power
Huws, Ursula (2003-03-21) -
The Global Office: : Information Technology and the Relocation of White-collar work
Huws, Ursula (Third World Information Network, 1985) -
Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues
Huws, Ursula; Dahlmann, Simone (2009)This paper looks at the impacts of the restructuration of global value chains are skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work ...