Ursula Huws
@ursulahuws.bsky.social
Independent writer and researcher. Feminist. Editor of the journal 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation'. Retired from academia. Working on a new book. Blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. Please DON'T message me if seeking romance.
This is a disaster. They MUST fire the break clause. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
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This perspicacious and well-informed overview of the history of the political economy of communication by Jernej A. Prodnik seems destined to become a staple of student reading lists. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Amazing article by Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzarolle describes the astonishing range of ways that AI can be used to coerce us into consumption, (in the process ratcheting up social inequalities) in the 'shoppable sublime'
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On Call in a Burning City: How Extreme Heat Is Reshaping Women’s Platform Work in Delhi NCR
Thousands of Indians are falling ill and dying of preventable deaths due to extreme heat. Heat Watch is helping expand awareness, capacity, and accountability to facilitate better decision-making and ...
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Latest blog post by Ursula Huws - a contribution to the debate about the future of adult social care in the UK and how Andy Burnham might address it ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/20/r...
Reinventing social care
With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…
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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.
Published at last! the final issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is now online at www.scienceopen.com/.../cdba69db.... This is a special issue that commemorates the legacy of Vincent Mosco and shows the relevance of his ideas for understanding the new world order
Why does someone with cancer receive treatment free on the NHS, while someone with dementia may have to pay for their care? The boundary between health & social care is increasingly difficult to defend – and increasingly expensive to maintain. Stephen McNair considers Andy Burnham's options.
Grasping social care: Andy Burnham’s big gamble
Andy Burnham plans to “expend real political capital” on reforming social care. It's a big gamble on cross party cooperation
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My latest blog post - a contribution to the debate about the future of adult social care in the UK and how Andy Burnham might address it ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/20/r...
Reinventing social care
With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…
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Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe
The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies
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@wolgjournal.bsky.social My latest blog post - an insider view of the local elections in Keir Starmer's constituency in the UK ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/08/w...
Where the national and the local meet
In 2021, in the midst of the Pandemic lockdown, I moved to a new home in the heart of Keir Starmer’s constituency, in the St Pancras and Somers Town Ward – the ward which historically h…
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Thanks also to @ursulahuws.bsky.social and her team for all of the great editorial work to make it possible.
My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/a...
Artificial stupidity
A week ago, I had an encounter with a chatbot which I posted on Facebook for its comedy value. After an opening conversation in which I had (repeatedly) established my identity and the number of th…
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Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...
Are we living in a Usurocracy?
How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash
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Our news bit.ly/PJJan25 brings Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation Vol 18 Iss 2 with articles highlighting Precarious Work & Inequality: Insights from Airbnb, Tuk-Tuks, Labour under Martial Law and Migrant Labour @ursulahuws.bsky.social @wolgjournal.bsky.social @scienceopen.bsky.social
Javier was into parody. But it worked too well as ‘rug pull.’
Ursula Huws@ursulahuws.bsky.social · last yr.A clerihew for February 19, 2025 Don’t cry for Javier Milei, Oh Argentina, whatever pundits might say. Weep for the planet. The true fraud is that crypto’s apparent fictionality Is based on the looting of all-too-material reality.
How do engineers and tech workers cope with the digital transformation, how far do they show similarities or different es? New paper by my colleagues and me in www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @ursulahuws.bsky.social
An uncertain elite : Professional differences and similarities between engineers and tech workers in times of digital transformation
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1373472e208">The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as sof...
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My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/t...
The perverse effects of outsourcing health and care services
As my last post indicated, I am currently experiencing very personally and directly the impacts of the outsourcing of health and social services that has been taking place in the UK since the 1980s…
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Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...
Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincent Mosco
Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…
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Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...
Are we living in a Usurocracy?
How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash
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Wide ranging conversation with Valentin Niebler and Kenzo Soares about changes in tech workers' identities and class consciousness in the current conjuncture (and some reflections on how this has changed over the last 50 years) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oow...
Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture
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My latest blog post looks, inter alia, at the question of choice in assisted dying ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/c...
Choice, coercion or a bit of both?
Recent debates in the UK parliament about the right to assisted dying, like other public discussions, for example about rights to abortion or freedom of expression, draw attention to the way that t…
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