Ursula Huws

Ursula Huws is a political economist known for her work on teleworking.

Ursula Huws
Nationality	British
Education	The Courtauld Institute, University of London

Education and career

Huws graduated in 1970 with a degree in art history from University of London.^[1] In 1996 she started work at the Institute for Employment Studies.^[2] Huws has worked at the London Metropolitan University,^[3] and the University of Hertfordshire.^[4]

She is the editor of the journal Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation,^[5] and co-edits the book series Dynamics of Virtual Work with Rosalind Gill.^[6]

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,^[7] including the health effects of working with video display terminals.^[8] In a 1981 study, The New Homeworkers, she examined how the combination of computing and telecommunications technologies would lead to new forms of teleworking.^[9][10] Her subsequent work has examined how advances in technology result in higher job losses for women,^[11] examined the exploitation of people working from home,^[12] and tracked the increased use of virtual assistants at work.^[13]

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.^[14]
• 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.^[15]
• Huws, Ursula (2014). Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age.^[16]
• Huws, Ursula (2020). Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies.^[17]

Honors and awards

Huws was elected a fellow of Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.^[18]