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

• editor, with Georg Fischer, Structural Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Labour Market and Social Implications, Paris: OCDE, 1993, 288 pp.

• editor, with Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe: From Protection to Destitution, Central European University Press, 1995.

• 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. ISBN 978-1-84966-455-4.
  • Precari: la nuova classe esplosiva, trans. Mario Vigiak, ed. Filippo Barbera, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012, 303 pp. [2] (Italian)
  • El precariado: una nueva clase social, trans. Juan Mari Madariaga, Barcelona: Pasado y Presente, 2013, 300 pp; 2nd ed., 2018. (Spanish)
  • O precariado: a nova classe perigosa, trans. Cristina Antunes, rev. Rogério Bettoni, Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2013. [3] (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. (Polish)
  • Prekarya: yeni tehlikeli sınıf, trans. Ergin Bulut, Istanbul: İletişim yayınları, 2014, 318 pp. (Turkish)
  • Prekariatet: den nye farlige klassen, trans. Rune Salomonsen, Oslo: Res publica, 2014, 380 pp. (Norwegian)
  • 프레카리아트: 새로운 위험한 계급, 2014. (Korean)
  • Prekariat: die neue explosive Klasse, trans. Sven Wunderlich, Münster: Unrast, 2015, 278 pp. (German)
  • 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)
  • Prekariatet: den farlige nye klasse, trans. Lotte Follin, Information, 2017, 357 pp. (Danish)
  • Prekariat: nevarni novi razred, trans. Amanda Saksida, afterw. Marko Funkl, Ljubljana: Krtina, 2018, 323 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Prekariát: nová nebezpečná třída, trans. Antonín Handl and Petr Janus, Prague: Rubato, 2018, 298 pp. Chapter 1, Chapter 7. Excerpt, Excerpt. Reviews: Mareš (H7o), Navrátil (Sociol. časopis). Publisher. (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.
  • Precariado: una carta de derechos, trans. Andrés de Francisco, Madrid: Capitan Swing, 2014, 391 pp. (Spanish)
  • En färdplan för prekariatet: vägen till ett fullvärdigt medborgarskap, trans. Joel Nordqvist, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2014, 349 pp. (Swedish)
  • Diventare cittadini: un manifesto del precariato, trans. Giancarlo Carlotti, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2015, 331 pp. (Italian)
  • Karta prekariatu, forew. Jacek Żakowski, trans. Piotr Juskowiak, Paweł Kaczmarski and Maciej Szlinder, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2015, xiv+411 pp. (Polish)
  • Eine Charta des Prekariats von der ausgeschlossenen zur gestaltenden Klasse, trans. Sven Wunderlich, Münster: Unrast, 2016, 335 pp. (German)

• 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.
  • La corrupción del capitalismo: por qué prosperan los rentistas y el trabajo no sale a cuenta, trans. Antonio Iriarte, Barcelona: Pasado & Presente, 2017, 348 pp. (Spanish)
  • Bullo sodeuk jabon juui [불로소득 자본주의: 부패한 자본은 어떻게 민주주의를 파괴하는가], trans. Byeongsun Gim, Seoul: Yeomun Chaek, 2019, 462 pp. (Korean)

• 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, 392 pp.
  • La renta básica: un derecho para todos y para siempre, trans. Julio Martínez Cava, afterw. Daniel Raventós and David Casassas, Barcelona: Pasado & Presente, 2018, 316 pp. (Spanish)
  • Bēshikku inkamu eno michi : seigi jiyū anzen no shakai infura o jitsugen saseru niwa [ベーシックインカムへの道: 正義・自由・安全の社会インフラを実現させるには], trans. Chiaki Ikemura, Tokyo: Purejidentosha, 2018, 388 pp. (Japanese)
  • Gibon sodeuk [기본소득: 일과 삶의 새로운 패러다임], trans. Hyosang An, Paju: Changbi, 2018. (Korean)
  • Xie ji mei ge ren de ji ben shou ru du ben [写给每个人的基本收入读本], trans. Yi Chen, Taipei: Lian pu chu ban, 2018, 352 pp. (Chinese)
  • Ji ben shou ru [基本收入], Shanghai: Shanghai wen yi chu ban she, 2020, 362 pp. (Chinese)
  • Dochód podstawowy. Jak możemy sprawić, żeby to się udało, trans. Maciej Szlinder, Paweł Kaczmarski and Tomasz Płomiński, Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna, 2021, 400 pp. [4] (Polish)

• Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth, Penguin, 2019, 416 pp. Review: Anthony (Guardian). [5]

• Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now, I.B. Tauris, 2020, 183 pp. [6]

• The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea, Pelican, 2022.

Articles (selection)

• "Britain's labour figures hide the real hours we work every day", The Guardian, 19 Aug 2012.
• "The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy", ppenDemocracy, 27 Jan 2012.
• "Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners!", openDemocracy, 13 Sep 2019.
• more articles on openDemocracy

Links

• Wikipedia