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These essays chart the transformation of work and technology with an acute theoretical originality. Ursula Huws has the rare ability to cut through existing abstract models with a clarity based on an immense practical understanding. The implications of The Making of a Cybertariat are far reaching in rethinking a radical strategy for the future. --Sheila Rowbotham, author of Promise of a Dream, Women, Resistance, and Revolution and Hidden from History The moments when a fresh impulse is given to the social sciences by an original spirit deserve to be celebrated, and making the feminist political economy of Ursula Huws available to a wider public is such a moment. --Colin Leys, emeritus professor of Queen's University, Ontario Author of Market-Driven Politics Ursula Huws is without peer as an analyst of life in contemporary capitalism. Her range of knowledge and experience is breathtaking. . . . Her ability to understand the revolution in microeletronic technology and connect it to the transformations of work, the restructuring of gender and class, and the commodification of every facet of social life exemplifies what feminist political economy can do at its very best. . . . Not only a truly educational experience but also a thoroughly enjoyable one. --Leo Panitch, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy York University, Toronto Huws is in the myth-busting business. She does it with razor-sharp analysis and wit. --Joan Greenbaum, professor of Computer Information Systems, LaGuardia Community College and author of Windows on the Workplace

These essays chart the transformation of work and technology with an acute theoretical originality. Ursula Huws has the rare ability to cut through existing abstract models with a clarity based on an immense practical understanding. The implications of The Making of a Cybertariat are far reaching in rethinking a radical strategy for the future.--Sheila Rowbotham, author of Promise of a Dream, Women, Resistance, and Revolution and Hidden from HistoryThe moments when a fresh impulse is given to the social sciences by an original spirit deserve to be celebrated, and making the feminist political economy of Ursula Huws available to a wider public is such a moment.--Colin Leys, emeritus professor of Queen's University, OntarioAuthor of Market-Driven PoliticsUrsula Huws is without peer as an analyst of life in contemporary capitalism. Her range of knowledge and experience is breathtaking. . . . Her ability to understand the revolution in microeletronic technology and connect it to the transformations of work, the restructuring of gender and class, and the commodification of every facet of social life exemplifies what feminist political economy can do at its very best. . . . Not only a truly educational experience but also a thoroughly enjoyable one.--Leo Panitch, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy York University, TorontoHuws is in the myth-busting business. She does it with razor-sharp analysis and wit.--Joan Greenbaum, professor of Computer Information Systems, LaGuardia Community College and author of Windows on the Workplace

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Ursula Huws is Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and founder of Analytica Social and Economic Research. She is the author of The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World. Colin Leys is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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