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.

How Dewi Became A Litigant: Migrant Domestic Workers as Litigants in Hong Kong (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tan, C. G. (2014). How Dewi Became A Litigant: Migrant Domestic Workers as Litigants in Hong Kong

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. Guardian (London),

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. Guardian (London),

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.

Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C., George, T. S., Hein, L. E., Dusinberre, M., Obermiller, D. T., Hastings, S. A., Fujiwara, T., Carlile, L. E., Aronson, B., Takahashi, S., Yano, C., Shimoda, H., & Vlastos, S. (2012). C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.). Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. Bloomsbury

The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four themat... Read More about Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble.

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)
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

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?.

Cash transfers: A review of the issues in India (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
Standing, G. Cash transfers: A review of the issues in India. New Delhi, India

This paper provides a review of the arguments for and against "cash transfers" in India. It begins by identifying changes in the Indian family and household as providing the context for a discussion on increased economic vulnerability, inequality and... Read More about Cash transfers: A review of the issues in India.

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.