Selected publications on employment restructuring by Ursula Huws

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

The Challenges confronting Welfare Systems in Europe and how ICTs can help solve them    LAW project report    August, 2005 
            
Labour Market Changes and Welfare Perspectives in the EU: a Review of the Evidence    LAW project report    March, 2005 

Labour Market Changes and Welfare Perspectives in the EU, LAW final project report, December 2005

Review of books by Chris Benner and Aad Blok in International Review of Social History,  Vol 49, part 3, Dec 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

'Flexing the Balance of Power', in Employment Review, Industrial Relations Services/Eclipse,  March 2003        
 
How can we help?  Good Practice in Call Centre Employment, (with Paul, J.) European Trade Union Confederation, Brussels, 2002

'Unsichere Freiheit - Freiberufliche Telearbeit, Autonomie und Geschlechterrollen in Europa' in Winker, G (ed), Telearbeit und Lenensqualitat, Campus,2002   

'The Restructuring of  Employment in the Information Society and its Implications for Social Protection' in Work Organization and Social Exclusion in the European Information Society, Campus Frankfurt/M, Frankfurt, 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

‘Grenzüberschreitende Verlagerung von eWork: Wo kommen die Jobs hin?’ in eWork:  Neue Jobchancen – real oder virtuell? Flecker, J. and Zilian, H.G., (eds) Arbeitsmarktservice, Vienna, 2002

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

Equality and Telework in Europe in  European Trade Union Confederation, 2001

‘Societa dell’informazione, occupazione e cittadinanza sociale’ in Mirabile, M.L. (ed)  Lavoro e Welfare della New Economy,   L’Assistenza Sociale, Oct-Dec 2000

An Evaluation of Homeworking in ACAS (with Siobhan O'Regan and Sheila Honey), Research Paper 2, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, London, 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

Virtually There:  the Evolution of Call Centres (with Alan Denbigh), Mitel, Newport, 1999

'Telearbeit in Europa/Teleworking in Europe' in Arbeit 2002:Zukunft der Frauen/Employment 2002:  the Future for Women, Cyba, E. and Knipp, M. (eds) Federal Ministry for Women's Affairs, Austria,  in association with the European Commission and Archimedia (bilingual German/English), Vienna, 1999

Teleworking and Local Government:  What are the Costs and Benefits?,  Local Government Management Board, London, 1999

''Flexibilisierung und Sicherheit:  Auf dem Weg zu einem neuen europäischen Gleichgewicht', in Zilian, H.G. and Flecker, J (eds), Flexibilisierung - Problem oder Lösung?. Edition Sigma, Berlin April, 1998

'Flexible Labour Markets and Equality Between the Sexes:  threat or opportunity?' in Mosconi, N., (ed) Égalité des Sexes en Éducation et Formation, Presses Universitaries de France, Paris, 1998

Flexibility and Security: towards a new European Balance, Citizens Income Trust, 1998

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

'Autonomy, power and gender: telematics and the paradox of choice' published in Swedish as  'Distansarbete Kraver en Valfardsstat' in Manniskan Jobbeet & den Nya Industrin,  Lars Skold and Gunnar von Sydow (eds) Svensa Industritjanstemannaforbundet (SIF), Stockholm,  1997

Flexible Labour Markets and Social Protection in Europe, Report to the European Commission, DGV, 1996

'Gender and Economic Restructuring in the UK' in Gender, British Council Briefing Issue 1, British Council in association with Change, 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

'Training and Flexible Work' in Flexible Working, February, 1996

'The Local Industrial Impact of the Single European Market', in Local Government Policy Making, March, 1991

'The Global Restructuring of Service Industries and its Implications for Women' in IRENE Newsletter, Industrial Restructuring Network Europe, March, 1991

'Monitoring the Flexible Workforce', in Labour Market Statistics For The 90s, Statistics Users Council, December, 1990

'Equality for Whom? Tensions between the Individual and Collective Aspirations of Women in the Workplace' in, The Construction of Sex/Gender. What is a Feminist Perspective?, Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 1990

'Women's Health at Work', in Silent Health, Camerawork, 1990

'Grasping the Political Nettle: Job Design' in Women and the Built Environment Quarterly, Issue 14: the Office, 1990

'Uprooting the Office', in Practical Computing, September, 1989

New Technology and Women's Employment: Case Studies from West Yorkshire, Equal Opportunities Commission, 1982