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  Ursula Huws in 2016

Ursula Huws is a feminist political economist who is Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. She was born on June 25th, 1947 in Bangor, North Wales. Her father, Richard Huws, was a pioneering industrial designer, best known for his ‘water sculptures’ erected at the Festival of Britain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain) in 1951 (now demolished) and at Liverpool’s Pier Head in 1962 (still standing and known as the ‘bucket fountain’). Her mother, Edrica Huws (formerly Tyrwhitt), was a patchwork artist who exhibited internationally.

Ursula Huws was close to, and influenced by, her mother’s sister, the eminent town planner Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaqueline_Tyrwhitt). In the 1960s, through this connection, she worked for several summers for the Greek architect and planner Constantinos Doxiadis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinos_Apostolou_Doxiadis), helping to report on a series of international conferences, the Delos symposia, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos_Symposium) on the future of cities which inspired some of her future work.

She graduated in 1970 with a degree in the history of European Art from the Courtauld Institute at the University of London, before going on to work as a researcher in publishing and television. In 1976 she moved to Yorkshire where she helped set up the Leeds Trade Union and Community Resource and Information Centre (TUCRIC) and began to research the economic and social impacts of technological change. She moved back to London in 1981 and since then has been based there, continuing to carry out qualitative, quantitative and theoretical research on the restructuring of employment and the changing global division of labour, (including coining the terms ‘teleworking’ and ‘cybertariat’), much of it conducted in large interdisciplinary international research projects.

She edits the peer-reviewed journal Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, which she founded in 2006, and co-edits the Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Dynamics of Virtual Work book series.

Her work has appeared in translation inter alia in Chinese, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maharathi, Portuguese, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

In 2012, she was credited by the Californian rock band, the Size Queens, with inspiring their album Consumption Work: Tammy, Cybertariat, at the Aral Sea.

Her books include:

• Your Job in the Eighties, London: Pluto Press (1982)
• The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World, New York: Monthly Review Press and London: Merlin Press (2003).
• Labour in the Global Digital Economy: the Cybertariat comes of Age, New York: Monthly Review Press (2013)
• Labour in Contemporary Capitalism: What Next? , London, Palgrave Macmillan (2019)
• Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Patforms and Public Policies, London, Pluto Press (2020)