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The Globalisation Glossary : A Researcher's Guide to Understanding Work Organisation Restructuring in a Knowledge-based Society
Huws, Ursula (Catholic University of Leuven Press, 2008) -
The Hassle of Housework: : Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour
Huws, Ursula (2019-12-10)This article revisits materialist second wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour it looks at how the tasks involved in housework have undergone ... -
iCapitalism and the Cybertariat Contradictions of the Digital Economy
Huws, Ursula (2015-01)We have now entered a period…when new waves of commodification set in motion in earlier periods are reaching maturity. The new commodities have been generated by drawing into the market even more aspects of life that were ... -
L'industria dei call center : quando il lavoro diventa bad job
Zanotelli, Marco; Huws, Ursula (2006-11-04)Il “cybertariato” è la nuova forza lavoro globale che sta crescendo nei Call center di tutto il mondo: una “classe operaia digitale” accomunata da identiche mansioni svolte al telefono di fronte ad un monitor. Una professione ... -
Industrial relations and social dialogue : Collective labour disputes in the EU
Spencer, Neil; Huws, Ursula; Brookes, Michael; Blissett, Ed; Kampouri, Eleni; Goold, Sally-Ann; Aumayr-Pintar, Christine; Rasche, Matthias (Publications Office of the European Union, 2022-03-02) -
Is the world really your oyster? : Going global for information services
Huws, Ursula (2003) -
Labor in the global digital economy : The Cybertariat Comes of Age
Huws, Ursula (Monthly Review Press, 2014-11)For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative ... -
Labour in the circuits of global markets : theories and realities
Huws, Ursula (2014) -
Less than zero : Ursula Huws on when capitalism quit caring for workers
Huws, Ursula (2013-08-15)The Cold War’s end and the internet’s rise freed employers to go global, leaving workers worldwide wobbling, says Ursula Huws -
Logged labour: : a new paradigm of work organisation?
Huws, Ursula (2016-05-30)This essay argues that, during the period following the financial crisis of 2007-8, several different trends, already visible in earlier periods, have converged to create a new pattern of work organisation, a pattern which ... -
The Making of a Cybertariat : Virtual Work in a Real World
Huws, Ursula (Monthly Review Press, 2003-07) -
The Making of a cybertariat? : Virtual work in a real world
Huws, Ursula (2001)This essay takes as its starting point a conception of capitalism as a dynamic force whose engine proceeds by the interrelated processes of commodification and accumulation. On the one hand it seeks insatiably for new ... -
Material World : the Myth of the Weightless Economy
Huws, Ursula (1999)The task I have set myself in this essay is to re-embody cyberspace: to try to make visible the material components of this virtual world. In this, I find myself rather oddly positioned. Having been arguing for over two ... -
Un monde materiale: le mythe de l’economie virtuelle
Huws, Ursula (2000) -
Der Mythos der weightless economy
Huws, Ursula (2000) -
Nature, Art and Technology : towards the Emergence of a New Relationship?
Huws, Ursula (2000) -
New forms of platform employment
Huws, Ursula (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, 2016-08-01) -
New forms of work : new occupational identities
Huws, Ursula; Dahlmann, Simone (University of Toronto Press, 2010)This essay looks at the impacts of the restructuring of global value chains on skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work processes ... -
The new gold rush : The new multinationals and the commodification of public service work
Huws, Ursula (2008-12-02)This article describes the growth of the new 'public services industry' and outlines the way in which government-provided services can be transformed into commodities and opened up as new fields of activity for private ... -
A New Virtual Global Division of Labour? : Some Lessons from the EMERGENCE Project
Huws, Ursula (2003)Conventional wisdom suggests that the widespread introduction of ICTs at a global level is leading to the “death of distance" and the emergence of an autonomous “weightless" new economy. The EU EMERGENCE project carried ...