Selected publications on teleworking and homeworking by Ursula Huws

Measuring the Information Society, (editor, with  Ramioul, M. and Bollen, A.) K.U. Leuven Press, 2005

'Heimarbeit', (with Candeias, M), in Historisch-kritische Worterbuch des Feminismus, Argument-Versand, 2004

''eWork in Canada' (with Gurstein, P.)  in  Collaboration@Work: the 2004 Report on new ways of working environments and practices , European Commission DG Information Society, 2004

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

'Flexing the Balance of Power', in Employment Review, Industrial Relations Services/Eclipse,  March 2003        
 
‘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

Modelling eWork in Europe:  Estimates, Models and Forecasts from the EMERGENCE Project, (with Bates, P.) IES Report 388, Institute for Employment Studies 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

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

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

Virtually There:  the Evolution of Call Centres (with Alan Denbigh), Mitel, Newport, 1999 (focuses on home-based call centre work)

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

'Teleworking and telematics' in Women'space, Volume 4 no 1, 1999

‘Wired in the Country’, in People Management, 25 November, 1999

'Party Politics' in People Management, 24 December, 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

Teleworking: Guidelines for Good Practice, Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 329,1997

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

Teleworking and Gender, (with Podro, S., Gunnarsson, E., Weijers, T., Arvanitaki, K. and Trova, V.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 317,1996

No Sweat!, Trades Union Congress, June, 1996


Teleworking and Gender, European Commission DGV Equal Opportunities Unit, May, 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

'Le Télétravail', in Diversification du Temps de Travail, Itineraires Professionels et Egalité Professionnelle, Conseil Superieur de l'Egalité Professionnelle, Ministère des Affaires Sociales, de la Santé et de la Ville, France, February, 1996

Good Practice in the Employment of Homeworkers and Teleworkers, ILO, 1996

A Manager's Guide to Teleworking, Employment Department, May, 1995

'Follow-up to the White Paper - Teleworking',  Social Europe, Supplement 3, European Commission DGV, 1995

Action Programmes for the Protection of Homeworkers, (editor) ILO, 1995

'Teleworking and Training for Women' in Franceskides, R. and De Troy, C. (eds) A Wider Vision: Reflections on Women's Training, IRIS, 1995

‘Management Issues in Teleworking’ in Future Work Forum, March, 1995

Home Truths: Results from the NGH National Homeworking Survey, National Group on Homeworking, August, 1994

Follow-up to the White Paper - Teleworking, European Commission Directorate General V, September, 1994, also published as Social Europe, Supplement 3, European Commission DGV, 1995

'Teleworking: facing up to the future' in Health, Safety and Environment Bulletin, July, 1994

'Teleworking in Britain', Employment Gazette, February, 1994

Teleworking in Britain, Employment Department Research Series, October, 1993

Technology Requirements Related to the Management of Telework, Commission of the European Communities Directorate General XIII, 1993

*Teleworking: Case Studies, with Podro, S, Interim Report to the Employment Department, 1992

*The Management of Teleworking, Interim Report to the Employment Department, 1992

Market Implementation of Teleworking in Rural Environments: Case Studies, Report to the European Commission, DG XIII, 1992

Towards a Taxonomy of Telework, Report to the European Commission, DG XIII, 1992

*Teleworking in Britain: Prevalence and Employer Attitudes, Interim Report to the Employment Department, 1992

'Telework: projections', in Futures, January, 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

Case Studies in Conditions of Work Digest: Telework, International Labour Office, 1990

'Pinning down the mobile worker' in Practical Computing, March 1990

Telework: Towards the Elusive Office (with Korte, W., and Robinson, S.) John Wiley, 1990

‘The Legal Implications of Telework’ in Practical Computing, January, 1990

What Price Flexibility?: the Casualisation of Women's Employment, (co-author with Hurstfield, J. and Holtmaat, R.), Low Pay Unit, September l989

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

'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

Home Sweet Workplace: Report of a survey into the employment needs of people with severe disabilities with particular reference to homeworking, GLC Equal Opportunities Group, 1986 (co-author with Ashok, H. and Hall, J.)

The Potential for Decentralised Electronic Working in the Banking, Insurance and Software Industries in the UK, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1986

'Interactive networks come to MFR', in Cases in Information Technology, ed Brown, D., Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986

'The effects of AI on women's lives', in Artificial Intelligence for Society, ed Gill, K.S., John Wiley, 1986

‘High Tech Homeworking:  Out of Sight, Out of Mind?’ in GLC Women’s Comnitteee Bulletin, Issue no 26, January, 1986

'Le moderne lavoratrici a domicilio', in Terminal Donne, eds Manacorda, P.M. and Piva, P., Studi e Richerche 46, Edizioni Lavoro, Rome 1985

'Terminal Isolation: the Atomisation of Work and Leisure in the Wired Society', in Making Waves, Radical Science 16, Winter/Spring 1985

Sweated Labour: Homeworking in Britain Today, Low Pay Unit, 1984 (with Bisset, L.)

The New Homeworkers, Report of a Research Project Commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission, Low Pay Unit, 1984

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

'Society at Work: The New Homeworkers', New Society, 22 March, 1984

'New Technology Homeworkers', Employment Gazette, January, 1984

‘Cable TV and Women’s Work’ in Emergency, 1983-1984


*restricted circulation only