Former Programme Director, International Labour Organization. Currently, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London. Hon. Co-President, BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network). Fellow, British Academy of Social Sciences. Author of: Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (2017); The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016); A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014); The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011). Co-Author, Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (2015).
In the previous two articles in this series, the precariat was depicted as the emerging mass class, experiencing falling real wages, chronic economic insecurity and growing anger, in a co...
In the second of a three-part series on the precariat class, a growing social demographic with no occupational identity and little economic stability, Guy Standing debunks the cornerstone...
We are in the middle of a global transformation, the painful construction of a global market economy. In the initial period dominated by financiers and rent-seekers, a new global class ha...
