Author: Ursula Huws

Ursula Huws is Director of Analytica Social and Economic Research; Editor, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation; Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire. She maintains a blog at ursulahuws.wordpress.com  where posts on Income Tax, Universal Credit, and other subjects related to the welfare state can be found.
14th December 2016

Criticisms of Citizen’s Income, and how to overcome them

To see Ursula Huws’ article The key criticisms of Basic Income and how to overcome them, click here.
3rd August 2016

The way we work is changing, but the welfare state hasn’t kept pace with the times

This article was first published on the ‘Conversation’ website: We are grateful for permission to republish it here. Mechanisation. Robots. The digital economy. The gig economy. The sharing economy. The Read More

14th June 2015

An Unconditional Citizen’s Income

In these straitened times, the idea of a basic income, granted unconditionally to every citizen, from cradle to grave, feels utopian. How on earth could it be paid for, we Read More