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'''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''. | '''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 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. | + | 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== | ==Writings== |
Revision as of 16:47, 18 February 2019
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. ISBN 978-1-84966-455-4.
- O Precariado: A nova classe perigosa, trans. Cristina Antunes, rev. Rogério Bettoni, 2013. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Prekariat: nowa niebezpieczna klasa, trans. Paweł Kaczmarski and Mateusz Karolak, c2014. Contains [introduction & chapters 1-3]. (Polish)
- 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.