Selected publications by Ursula Huws on offshore outsourcing

The globalisation glossary: a researcher's guide to understanding work organisation restructuring in a knowledge-based society', Catholic University of Leuven Press, Leuven

Value chain restructuring in Europe in a global economy, (with Jorg Flecker, Monique Ramioul and Karen Guerts), Report from the WORKS project, Higher Institute of Labour Studies, Leuven, 2008

The Transformation of Work in a Global Knowledge Economy: Towards a Conceptual Framework, a report from the WORKS Project, edited by Ursula Huws with many co-authors, 2006

‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’ in Monthly Review, Vol 57 No 10, March , 2006

'Rotfast, rotlöst eller splittrat' in Kors & Tvärs'  edited by Gunnarsson,  E., Neergaard, A., and Nillson, A., Normal Förlag. Stockholm, 2006

‘What will we do? The destruction of occupational identities in the Knowledge-based Economy’, Monthly Review, Vol 57 No 8 January, 2006

‘Vad Jobbar du Med? Om sammanbrottet for yrkesidentiteten och knonstruktionen av resercarment’, Roda Rummer, 1/2006  

 'Fixo, volátil, ou dividido: O trabalho, a identidade e a divisão espacial do trabalho no séc. XXI'  in Resistir, March, 2006

O que faremos nós? A destruição da identidade ocupacional na 'Economia baseada no conhecimento' , in Resistir, January, 2006

‘The restructuring of global value chains and the creation of a cybertariat’ in May, Christopher (ed)  Global Corporate Power: Global Corporate Power: (Re)integrating companies into International Political Economy (International Political Economy Yearbook volume 15), Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006

 ‘Coding and Classification of Sectors and Occupations in the E-Economy’ in Measuring the Information Society, Huws,  Ramioul and Bollen (eds) K.U. Leuven Press, 2005

Measuring the Information Society, (editor, with  Ramioul, M. and Bollen, A.) K.U. Leuven Press, 2005
 
Status Report on Outsourcing of ICT-enabled Services in the EU, (with Flecker, J and Dalmann, S.) European Monitoring Centre on Change of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2004

Opening the Black Box:  Classification of Sectors and Occupations in the eEconomy, (with van der Hallen, P.), Higher Institute of Labour Studies, K.U. Leuven, 2004

The Missing e: the Use of national elements of the European Labour Force Survey  for eWork (with Jagger, N.)  Analysis, Higher Institute of Labour Studies, K.U. Leuven, 2004

Asian Emergence:  the World’s Back Office? (with Flecker, J.) IES Report 419, Institute for Employment Studies, 2004

'Material World: the Myth of the Weightless Economy' in Panitch, L, Leys, C., Zuege, A. and Konigs, M (eds) The Globalization Decade: a Critical Reader, Merlin Press, 2004  

The Making of a Cybertariat:  Virtual Work in a Real World  Monthly Review Press,  New York and Merlin Press, London, 2003

‘A New Virtual Global Division of Labour?  Some Lessons from the EMERGENCE Project’ in Technikfolgenabschätzung - Theorie und Praxis, Vol 12, No 3/4, November, 2003    

When Work takes Flight: Final report of the EMERGENCE Project, IES Report 397, Institute for Employment Studies 2003

'Is the world really your oyster? Going global for information services', in Worldlink- Magazine of the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, Vol 13, 4 Oct, 2003   http://www.wfpma.com/PDFs/wlv13nf.pdf

‘Die Produktion eines Kybertariats. Die Wirklichtkeit virtueller Arbeit’ in Das Argument, Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 248, 2002

‘E-work in a Global Economy’ in Challenges and Achievements in E-business and E-work’, Stanford-Smith, B., Chiozza, E. and Edin, M. (eds) IOS Press, Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington D.C., 2002

‘The Persistence of National Differences in the New Global Division of Labour in eServices’ in Globalisation, Innovation and Human Development for Competitive Advantage, Asia Institute of Technology, Bangkok, December, 2002

Statistical Indicators of eWork:  a Discussion Paper, IES Report 385, Institute for Employment Studies, 2002

eWork in Europe:  Results from the EMERGENCE 18-country Survey (with O’Regan, S.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 380, 2001

Where the Butterfly Alights:  the Global Location of eWork (with Jagger, N.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 378, 2001

'The making of a cybertariat? Virtual work in a real world' In Panitch, L. and Leys, C. (eds) Working Classes, Global Realities, Socialist Register,  2001

‘Der Mythos der weightless economy’ in Die Neue Őkonomie des Internet, Das Argument, Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 238, 2000

 ‘Un monde materiale: le mythe de l’economie virtuelle’ in Nouvelles Technologies d’Information: Nouvelle Donne Sociale, Critique Communiste 159/160 Autumn 2000

‘The Changing Gender Division of Labour in the Transition to the Knowledge Society’ in Rubenson, K. and Schuetse, H.G. (eds) Transition to the Knowledge Society:  Policies and Strategies for Inidividual Participation and Learning, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2000

'The Emergence of a new global division of labour in information services' in Where in the World? E-work location in a digital global economy, conference proceedings, October, 2000

Teleworking and Globalisation (with Nick Jagger and Siobhan O'Regan), Report No 358, Institute for Employment Studies, Brighton, 1999

'Material World: the Myth of the Weightless Economy', in Panitch, L., and Leys, C. (eds), Socialist Register, 1999, Merlin Press, UK and Monthly Review Press, USA, 1999

'Beyond Anecdotes: on Quantifying the Globalisation of Information Processing Work', in Mitter and Bastos (eds) Europe and Developing Countries in the Globalised Information Economy, United Nations University Institute of Technology, Routledge, 1999

Virtually Free:  Gender, Work and Spatial Choice, NUTEK, Sweden, September, 1997 (co-editor, with Gunnarsson, E. and author of two chapters)

Teleworking and Rural Development, (with Honey, S. and Morris, S.) Rural Development Commission, 1996, November, 1996

Teleworking: an Overview of the Research, Joint publication of the Department of Transport, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of the Environment, Department for Education and Employment and Employment Service, July, 1996

'Follow-up to the White Paper - Teleworking',  Social Europe, Supplement 3, European Commission DGV, 1995
'The Global Restructuring of Service Industries and its Implications for Women' in IRENE Newsletter, Industrial Restructuring Network Europe, March, 1991
'Remote Possibilities: some difficulties in the analysis and quantification of telework in the UK', in Telework: development of a new form of work organisation, eds Korte, W., Steinle, W., and Robinson, S., North Holland, 1988
'The Global Office: Information Technology and the Relocation of White-collar work' in Third World Trade and Technology Conference Papers , Third World Information Network, 1985

'The Runaway Office Jobs', International Labour Reports, March-April, 1984