Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia (2022)
Report
Bosc, I., Lerche, J., Shah, A., Fajerman, M., & Wadhawan, N. (2022). Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia

Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy (2022)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J. (2022). Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy. In E. Baglioni, L. Campling, N. M. Coe, & A. Smith (Eds.), Labour Regimes and Global Production. Agenda Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2b6z898

The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion (2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion

Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda? (2015)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bargawi, H. (in press). Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33(1), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2015.1021213

This article explores macroeconomic policies in Uganda in the wake of the global financial crisis and following the publication of the 2010 National Development Plan. Despite apparent changes in rhetoric regarding macroeconomic policies by the Uganda... Read More about Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?.

Taskers: The Precariat in the On-Demand Economy - Part I (2015)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2015). Taskers: The Precariat in the On-Demand Economy - Part I

The precariat: The new dangerous class (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). The precariat: The new dangerous class

Why fracking should be for the many (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). Why fracking should be for the many

Understanding the precariat through labour and work (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). Understanding the precariat through labour and work. Development and Change, 45(5), 963-980. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12120

This article sets out a framework for analysing the globalizing labour process, arguing that the old dualisms of ‘capital’ versus ‘labour’ and ‘formal sector’ versus ‘informal sector’ are inadequate and unhelpful. It begins by making conceptual disti... Read More about Understanding the precariat through labour and work.

Por qué el precariado no es un "concepto espurio" (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). Por qué el precariado no es un "concepto espurio". Sociología del trabajo, 7-15

Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare system (2013)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2013). Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare system

Defining the precariat: A class in the making (2013)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2013). Defining the precariat: A class in the making. Eurozine,

Class has not disappeared. Instead, a more fragmented global class structure has emerged alongside a more flexible open labour market. This prompts Guy Standing to forge a new vocabulary capable of describing class relations in the global market syst... Read More about Defining the precariat: A class in the making.

Why zero-hours contracts remind me of the horrors of 1990s Russia (2013)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2013). Why zero-hours contracts remind me of the horrors of 1990s Russia

Why a basic income is necessary for a right to work (2013)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2013). Why a basic income is necessary for a right to work. Basic Income Studies, 7(2), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2013-0007

This article makes the proposition that a right to work can only exist if an individual has a prior right to a basic income. It criticizes the perspective that maximizing the number of jobs is a meaningful way of advancing the right to work, since ac... Read More about Why a basic income is necessary for a right to work.

Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma (2013)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2013). Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma. Public Culture, 25(1 69), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890432

Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in. Today people in rich countries live in societies that are tertiary, not industrial, i... Read More about Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma.

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.

Britain's labour figures hide the real hours we work every day (2012)
Other
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

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

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

The Precariat: Why it needs deliberative democracy (2012)
Other
Standing, G. (2012). The Precariat: Why it needs deliberative democracy

To arrest the drift to social engineering, the voice of those subject to the steering should be inside the institutions responsible for social policy. This means more than putting token ‘community leaders’ on boards. It must be a collective democrati... Read More about The Precariat: Why it needs deliberative democracy.

The precariat: from denizens to citizens? (2012)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2012). The precariat: from denizens to citizens?. Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, 44(4), 588-608. https://doi.org/10.1057/pol.2012.15

Liberalized markets promoted by the Washington Consensus under globalization have resulted in a global class structure in which new groups have emerged, including a precariat consisting of millions of people subject to flexible, insecure labor relati... Read More about The precariat: from denizens to citizens?.