Guy Standing
Guy Standing (1948) is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and author of The Precariat.
Standing worked as an economist at the International Labour Organization from 1975 until 2006. He has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. His recent work has concerned the emerging precariat class and the need to move towards unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy.
Writings
- Books
- Global Labour Flexibility: Seeking Distributive Justice, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-333-77652-0.
- Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality, London New York: Verso, 2002. ISBN 978-1-85984-345-1.
- editor, with Michael Samson, A Basic Income Grant for South Africa, Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-919713-86-1.
- with Andràs November, Un revenu de base pour chacun(e), Genève: Bureau international du travail, 2003. ISBN 9789222151264. (French)
- Promoting Income Security as a Right Europe and North America, London: Anthem Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-85728-732-8.
- Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship, Cheltenham, UK Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84844-778-3.
- with Renana Jhabvala, Jeemol Unni, and Uma Rani, Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat, London/New York: Routledge, 2010, 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-58574-3. [1]
- The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011, ix+198 pp.
- El precariado: una nueva clase social, trans. Juan Mari Madariaga, Barcelona: Pasado y Presente, 2011, 300 pp. (Spanish)
- Precari: la nuova classe esplosiva, trans. Mario Vigiak, ed. Filippo Barbera, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012, 303 pp. [2] (Italian)
- O Precariado: A nova classe perigosa, trans. Cristina Antunes, rev. Rogério Bettoni, 2013. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Prekariatet: den nya farliga klassen, trans. Joel Nordqvist, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2013, 281 pp. (Swedish)
- Prekariat: nowa niebezpieczna klasa, forew. Jacek Żakowski, trans. Krzysztof Czarnecki, Paweł Kaczmarski and Mateusz Karolak, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2014, 368 pp. Contains [introduction & chapters 1-3]. (Polish)
- Prekarya: yeni tehlikeli sınıf, trans. Ergin Bulut, Istanbul: İletişim yayınları, 2014, 318 pp. (Turkish)
- Purekariato : Fubyodo shakai ga umidasu kikenna kaikyu [プレカリアート: 不平等社会が生み出す危険な階級], trans. Tadashi Okanochi, Kyoto: Hōritsubunkasha, 2016, 289 pp. (Japanese)
- Le précariat: les dangers d'une nouvelle classe, trans. Mickey Gaboriaud, Paris: Les éditions de l'Opportun, 2017, 460 pp. (French)
- Prekariát. Nová nebezpečná třída, trans. Antonín Handl and Petr Janus, Rubato, 2019, 298 pp. Excerpt, Excerpt. Review: Mareš. [3] (Czech)
- Bu wen ding wu chan jie ji: yi ge yin quan qiu hua er sheng de dang dai xin wei xian jie ji,ta men wei he chan sheng,jiang zao cheng shen me wen ti,she hui you gai ru he yin ying? [不穩定無產階級: 一個因全球化而生的當代新危險階級,他們為何產生,將造成什麼問題,社會又該如何因應?], trans. Weiren Liu, Taipei: Lian pu chu ban, 2019. (Chinese)
- A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens, London New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. ISBN 978-1-84966-455-4.
- with Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala and Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India, London and New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4725-8310-9.
- The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay, London: Biteback, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78590-044-0.
- Basic Income: and How We Can Make It Happen, London: Pelican/Penguin (A Pelican Introduction), 2017. ISBN 978-0-14-198549-7. US ed. as Basic Income: A Guide for the Open-Minded, Yale University Press, 2017.
- Articles
- "Britain's labour figures hide the real hours we work every day", The Guardian, 19 Aug 2012.
- "The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy", OpenDemocracy, 27 Jan 2012.
