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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.

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Back I am now back at my desk after an eventful few weeks. The horrible experience described in my most recent blog has yet to be resolved but has faded into relative insignificance. On September 5th I …

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Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of VincentΒ Mosco Special issue ofΒ Work Organisation, Labour and GlobalisationΒ onΒ Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…

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...

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I kid you not

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Are we living in a Usurocracy? How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...

15.08.2025 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture
YouTube video by Pluto Journals Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture

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...

01.07.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are we living in a Usurocracy? How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

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Help! I found this image on Bluesky, where it was attributed to Von Bog Witch, to whom I offer huge thanks and appreciation. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, I was unable to find a way to communi…

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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…

My latest blog post looks, inter alia, at the question of choice in assisted dying ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/c...

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The English country garden A couple of weeks ago, I listened to a discussion about the impact of clean energy policies on the British countryside on the BBC radio 4 Any Questions programme. Although the discussants, picked f…

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15.06.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Music - BBC Music - God Only Knows A film to celebrate our love of music.

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13.06.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, and gender Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, outsourcing, the OED, gender, and Jimmy Young You can read some of her work here: https://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/

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04.06.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How the English language excludes and includes It is now six months since Trump was elected president of the USA and I began writing daily clerihews to find a way to get through each depressing day of the unfolding transition to a new world ord…

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The Slough of Despond?

13.05.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The clerihews of Winter, 2024-2025 - How I made it through the transition to the new world order "In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US preside...

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Ursula Huws -- The Household in Marx’s 'Capital'
YouTube video by Marcello Musto Ursula Huws -- The Household in Marx’s 'Capital'

reposted by request (the sound quality is not wonderful and the powerpoint slides are not shown) but this is one of the most concise summaries of what Ursula Huws has drawn from Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywv...

09.05.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ursula Huws's Blog Occasional writings about some of the contradictory aspects of life on this planet, viewed from 2010 to 2021 from Dalston and now from St Pancras.

My latest blog post - on my troubled relationship with technology ursulahuws.wordpress.com

08.05.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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howardzinn.org To inspire people to read, write, and make history.

This is where I was first introduced to Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Naomi Klein, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Tariq Ali, Ursula Huws and so many other great thinkers.

www.howardzinn.org

05.01.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TEKRAR BASIM | KΓΌresel Dijital Ekonomide Emek

Ursula Huws, günümüz küresel kapitalist ekonomisinin farklı gârünümleriyle ilgili kışkırtıcı analiziyle, son yılların iktisadi, kültürel ve siyasi olgularını bir araya getiriyor.
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Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy and control in creative labour | Ephemeral Journal

Classroom report:

This article by @ursulahuws.bsky.social can still strike the hearts of students learning to be creative workers (and of at least some of the teachers who teach them). It's also a crystal-hard model of dialectical thinking.

26.03.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The clerihews of Winter, 2024-2025 In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presiden...

My little book of clerihews is now published and available from www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the...

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Researchers advised not to respond to US questionnaire - Leiden University Researchers who have received a questionnaire containing political questions from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) or other American government funders such as NIH or ARPA are advised not to...

Researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands have received a questionnaire from the US with questions that are an attack on academic freedom. The University of Leiden advises not to respond www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

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A new spring! It is the end of February. Tomorrow will be St David’s Day, when traditionally in Wales, you rejoice that any frail elderly people you know have made it through the winter and expect to spot …

My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/a...

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A clerihew for February 28, 2025

Villain or hero? Serious or phony?
You grasp the disputed status of Luigi Mangione
When you realise that in the US your life and health
Depend on your wealth.

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A clerihew for February 27, 2025

Born around the time Il Duco
Began his ascendancy in Italy, Michel Foucault
Devoted his career to studying power
Which made him quite the intellectual of the hour.

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A clerihew for February 26, 2025

Attracting acclaim at every turn,
Jacinda Adern
May have inspired high popular turnout
But eventually succumbed to emotional burnout.

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The big reversal in Germany’s election

Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions.

Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.

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A clerihew for February 25, 2025

As Volodymyr Zelensky
Knows, what’s at stake in this war is immense: key
To the outcome’s what’s under the soil.
What the oligarchs want is rare metals as spoil.

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A clerihew for February24, 2025

With a fortune made from blowing things up, what would impel
Dynamite mogul Alfred Nobel
To donate from his riches to further world peace?
Was he trying to rebuild it, piece by hurled piece?

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A clerihew for February 23, 2025

Fittingly, since for hardness of heart few could match her,
β€˜No such thing as society’ Margaret Thatcher
Ended her life, as history admits,
Looked after by strangers in a suite at the Ritz.

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A clerihew for February 22, 2025

Ukrainians must look on with consternation
At international procrastination
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
Put the boot in.

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