Ursula Huws

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Alex Taylor on X: "Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world My English sub-titles 👇 https://t.co/rcmWu9VBFh" / X Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world My English sub-titles 👇 https://t.co/rcmWu9VBFh

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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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Happy Holidays Usually at this time of the year I post a picture on this blog in lieu of a Christmas card. Very often this is a picture I have taken during the course of the previous year, selected sometimes for …

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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...

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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.’

Where's the new Winston now that we need him?

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...

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...

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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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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 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…

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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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...

Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture YouTube video by Pluto Journals

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...

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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...

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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BBC Music - BBC Music - God Only Knows A film to celebrate our love of music.

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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?

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

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...

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.

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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.

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TEKRAR BASIM | Küresel Dijital Ekonomide Emek

Ursula Huws, günümüz küresel kapitalist ekonomisinin farklı görünümleriyle ilgili kışkırtıcı analiziyle, son yılların iktisadi, kültürel ve siyasi olgularını bir araya getiriyor.
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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.

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...

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