Outputs (134)

Nepal: New demands require a new strategy (2012)
Digital Artefact
Ismail, F. (2012). Nepal: New demands require a new strategy

Cash transfer film (2012)
Digital Artefact
Bhatt, J. (2012). Cash transfer film. [YouTube video]

This short (12 minute) video summarizes early results of an experimental unconditional cash transfer project in Madhya Pradesh, India, conducted by SEWA - Self Employed Women's Association of India - with the assistance of SOAS Professor Guy Standing... Read More about Cash transfer film.

Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Béné, C., Godfrey-Wood, R., Newsham, A., & Davies, M. Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes. Brighton

Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers, donors and international development agencies are now increasingly... Read More about Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes.

Britain's labour figures hide the real hours we work every day (2012)
Newspaper / Magazine
Standing, G. (2012). Britain's labour figures hide the real hours we work every day

Nowadays we do a lot of work when we come home from work. Yet our outdated statistics don't record any of it

An anniversary note: BIEN's twenty-fifth (2012)
Book Chapter
Standing, G. (2012). An anniversary note: BIEN's twenty-fifth. In R. K. Caputo (Ed.), Basic Income Guarantee and Politics: International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee (55-60). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137045300_4

Book review response: Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2012)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2012). Book review response: Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. Work, Employment and Society, 26(4), 690-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017012448226

Women's Empowerment Revisited: From Individual to Collective Power among the Export Sector Workers of Bangladesh (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Hossain, N. (2012). Women's Empowerment Revisited: From Individual to Collective Power among the Export Sector Workers of Bangladesh

Democratisation and the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Poulton, C. Democratisation and the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa. Sussex

‘Currents and eddies’: Indian-Middle East migration processes (2012)
Journal Article
Raman, R. (2012). ‘Currents and eddies’: Indian-Middle East migration processes. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(2), 189-205. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rss003

Migration begets migration in a constant flow of currents and eddies with people moving in to fill the niches vacated by emigrants thus blurring boundaries and spaces. This paper explores the nested complexities of the migration processes between Ind... Read More about ‘Currents and eddies’: Indian-Middle East migration processes.

Beware the lens of low-wage labor (2012)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2012). Beware the lens of low-wage labor. Contemporary Sociology, 41(4), 453-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306112449613b