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O que faremos nós? : A destruição da identidade ocupacional na 'Economia baseada no conhecimento'
Huws, Ursula (2006-01)Confrontados com a dificuldade de 'situar' um estranho, a primeira coisa que costumamos fazer é perguntar, 'o que é que o senhor faz?'. À excepção talvez de algumas tribos de caçadores-recolectores, a ocupação de uma pessoa ... -
O que mudou foa a divisao do trabalho
Huws, Ursula (2007-04-23) -
Online labour exchanges or 'crowdsourcing' : Implications for occupational safety and health
Huws, Ursula (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), 2015) -
Online, on call: : the spread of digitally-organised just-in-time working and its implications for standard employment models
Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Syrdal, Dag Sverre (2018-07-10)This article questions whether the dominant policy discourse, in which a normative model of standard employment is counterposed to ‘non-standard’ or ‘atypical’ employment, enables us to capture the diversity of fluid labour ... -
Party Politics
Huws, Ursula (1998-12-24) -
Passing the buck : Corporate restructuring and the casualisation of employment
Huws, Ursula (2011-09-15)This article starts by looking critically at the contested concept of work flexibility, tracing the ambiguities inherent in it to the contradictions embodied in the 'special deals' struck between capital and labour in the ... -
Planning and Freedom
Huws, Ursula (1994) -
The Platformisation Of Work In Europe: Highlights from research in 13 European countries
Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Coates, Matthew (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, 2019-07-09) -
The Platformisation Of Work In Europe: Results from research in 13 European countries
Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Coates, Matthew; Sverre Syrdal, Dag; Holts, Kaire (2019-08)These data are from an innovative survey carried out fourteen times across thirteen European countries (with the United Kingdom being surveyed twice - in 2016 and 2019), revealing, for the first time, the extent and ... -
The Platformisation Of Work In Europe: Results from research in 13 European countries
Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil; Coates, Matthew; Holts, Kaire (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, 2019-07) -
Die Produktion eines Kybertariats : Die Wirklichtkeit virtueller Arbeit
Huws, Ursula (2002-06-30)The standpoint that a global economy emerges as a consequence of 1989 can be justified. The WTO dismantles all remaining barriers to the interstate movement of capital. -
The reproduction of difference : gender and the global division of labour
Huws, Ursula (2012-03-14)This article starts by outlining the complex relationship between the gender division of labour in the household and the division of labour in waged work, taking account of the social, technical and spatial dimensions of ... -
Researching precarious, virtual and clandestine labour : Methodological and ethical challenges
Iphofen, Ron; Huws, Ursula; Spencer, Neil (2022-05-14)Introducing this volume, this article reflects on recent changes that brought to the editors’ attention the need for this special issue on the methodological and ethical challenges facing those who research precarious, ... -
The restructuring of global value chains and the creation of a cybertariat
Huws, Ursula (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006-04) -
Saints and sinners : lessons about work from daytime TV
Huws, Ursula (2015-06)This article looks at the messages given by factual TV programmes to audiences about work, and, in particular, the models of working behaviour that have been presented to them during the period following the 2007-8 financial ... -
Shifting boundaries : gender, labor, and new information and communication technology
Huws, Ursula (Routledge, 2013-12)This contribution will attempt to tease out the complex and shifting inter-relationship between, on the one hand, the gender division of labour in unpaid work and paid work and, on the other hand, transformations in the ... -
The snowball effect : global sourcing as an accelerator of economic globalization
Ramioul, Monique; Huws, Ursula (2009-12)Drawing on case studies of the strategies of global providers of outsourced business services, this article argues that the concept of ‘offshore outsourcing’ is no longer adequate to describe the restructuring of global ... -
Societa dell’informazione, occupazione e cittadinanza sociale
Huws, Ursula (2000) -
The spark in the engine : creative workers in a global economy
Huws, Ursula (2007)Introducing this volume, this paper summarises the contents and offers an analysis of the place of creative work in a global economy, focusing in particular on the restructuring of global value chains and the commodification ... -
Sunset in the West : Outsourcing editorial work from the UK to India - a case study of the impact on workers
Dahlmann, Simone; Huws, Ursula (2007)This paper presents a case study carried out in a large academic publishing and printing house. Interviews were carried out in both locations with senior and middle management, workers and trade unionsto gain their ...