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?.

Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity (2011)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2011). Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity. International Journal of Social Welfare, 20(3), 260-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2010.00778.x

The article sets out to evaluate the performance of the conventional labour market and social policies in the era of globalised labour markets in terms of poverty alleviation, equality and security. To this end, it develops a framework based on three... Read More about Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity.

Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat? (2011)
Newspaper / Magazine
Standing, G. (2011). Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat?

Progressives need to find ways to speak to the new global, insecure classes before the far right does.

The precariat: The new dangerous class (2011)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2011). The precariat: The new dangerous class. Policy network,

For the first time in history, the mainstream left has no progressive agenda. It has forgotten a basic principle. Every progressive political movement has been built on the anger, needs and aspirations of the emerging major class. Today that class is... Read More about The precariat: The new dangerous class.

Workfare and the precariat (2011)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2011). Workfare and the precariat. Soundings, 35-43. https://doi.org/10.3898/136266211795427549

Workfare is the wrong policy response to the insecurities and inequalities inherent in a flexible market economy. It does nothing to counter these insecurities and inequalities and represents an abandonment of universalistic and solidaristic principl... Read More about Workfare and the precariat.

Workfare: Ed Miliband's defining challenge? (2011)
Other
Standing, G. (2011). Workfare: Ed Miliband's defining challenge?

Ed Miliband has become Labour leader at an opportune time, when a new progressive vision is required, when the labourism that dominated progressive politics for a century has run its course. There are many legacies to remove. But one should be at the... Read More about Workfare: Ed Miliband's defining challenge?.

How cash transfers promote work and economic security (2011)
Book Chapter
Standing, G. (2011). How cash transfers promote work and economic security. In K. S. Jomo, & A. Chowdhury (Eds.), Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies (197-221). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849664530.ch-009

The precariat: The new dangerous class (2011)
Book
Standing, G. (2011). The precariat: The new dangerous class. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849664554

This book presents the Precariat - an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. Guy Standing argues that this class is producing inst... Read More about The precariat: The new dangerous class.

End of a Faustian pact: Workfare and riots (2011)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2011). End of a Faustian pact: Workfare and riots. Poverty, 11-14

During the past three decades, politicians struck a Faustian
pact. In return for ‘labour market flexibility’, government
would top up declining wages through subsidies and tax
credits and redirect social protection from an emphasis
on social soli... Read More about End of a Faustian pact: Workfare and riots.

Targeting to the "poor": Clogged pipes and bureaucratic blinkers (2010)
Journal Article
Standing, G., & Jhabvala, R. (2010). Targeting to the "poor": Clogged pipes and bureaucratic blinkers. Economic and political weekly, XLV(26-27), 239-246

Drawing on a household and village-level community survey of social income, this paper offers a critique of the widespread use of targeting in Indian social policy primarily through the use of the below poverty line card system, to include or exclude... Read More about Targeting to the "poor": Clogged pipes and bureaucratic blinkers.

Global monitor: The International Labour Organisation (2010)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2010). Global monitor: The International Labour Organisation. New Political Economy, 15(2), 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563460903290961

Review of Sunanda Sen and Byasdeb Dasgupta, "Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India’s Manufacturing Industry" (2010)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2010). Review of Sunanda Sen and Byasdeb Dasgupta, "Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India’s Manufacturing Industry". Development and Change, 41(1), 188-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01628.x

Review of Cohen, D., "Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society" (2009)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2009). Review of Cohen, D., "Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society". Journal of Economics, 98(3), 261-266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-009-0098-3

Global employment: Two reports in search of the problem (2009)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2009). Global employment: Two reports in search of the problem. Development and Change, 40(6), 1319-1337. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01617.x

Work and occupation in a tertiary society (2009)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2009). Work and occupation in a tertiary society. Labour and Industry, 19(3), 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2009.10669384

This article suggests that social scientists should shift from labour to broader concepts of work and, in particular, a new sense of occupation, in which people combine forms of activity that cross the boundaries set by old labour concepts. We live i... Read More about Work and occupation in a tertiary society.

Reclaiming Labour Law and Beyond (2009)
Book Chapter
Chang, D.-O. (2009). Reclaiming Labour Law and Beyond. In D. Lee, A. Leong, R. Ofreneo, & A. Skumaran (Eds.), Rights for Two-Thirds of Asia: Asian Labour Law Review 2008 (xiii-xxvi). Asia Monitor Resource Centre

This introductory chapter tries to brief new developments in labour laws in Asia particularly in regard to increasing informal forms of labour across Asia. The first part of this introduction deals with the intrinsic contradiction of labour law in wh... Read More about Reclaiming Labour Law and Beyond.

Work after globalization: Building occupational citizenship (2009)
Book
Standing, G. (2009). Work after globalization: Building occupational citizenship. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849802376

In this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation marked the rise of industrial citizenship, which hinged on f... Read More about Work after globalization: Building occupational citizenship.

Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper
Standing, G. Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity. Geneva, Switzerland

The paper sets out to evaluate the performance in terms of poverty alleviation of conventional labour market and social policies and arrangements in the era of globalised labour markets. To this end, it develops a framework based on five policy evalu... Read More about Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity.

Economic insecurity and global casualisation: Threat or promise? (2008)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2008). Economic insecurity and global casualisation: Threat or promise?. Social Indicators Research, 88(1), 15-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-007-9202-7

Casualisation has both negative and positive sides, for both workers and employers. This article considers how the positive sides could be developed while allowing casual work to continue to grow. In reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of casu... Read More about Economic insecurity and global casualisation: Threat or promise?.

Reviving egalitarianism in the Global Transformation: Building occupational security (2008)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2008). Reviving egalitarianism in the Global Transformation: Building occupational security. Indian journal of human development, 2(1), 39-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/097370302008010

The world is in the midst of a Global Transformation, reflecting the painful creation of a global market society. Globalization was the disembedded phase, in which inequalities and insecurities multiplied as national systems of regulation, social pro... Read More about Reviving egalitarianism in the Global Transformation: Building occupational security.