Indicators and Patterns of Specialization in International Trade
(2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ferrarini, B., & Scaramozzino, P. Indicators and Patterns of Specialization in International Trade. Bern, Switzerland
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?.
Introduction to Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in SE Asia (2011)
Book Chapter
Janowski, M., & Barker, G. (2011). Introduction to Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in SE Asia. In M. Janowski, & G. Barker (Eds.), Why Cultivate? Understandings of past and present adoption, abandonment, and commitment to agriculture in Southeast Asia. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
The precariat: The new dangerous class (2011)
Book
Standing, G. (2011). The precariat: The new dangerous class. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849664554This 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, 11-14During 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.
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
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), 239-246Drawing 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/10.1080/10301763.2009.10669384This 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 CentreThis 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/10.4337/9781849802376In 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.
Vital exchanges: land and persons in Kerala (2009)
Book Chapter
Osella, C., & Osella, F. (2009). Vital exchanges: land and persons in Kerala. In D. Berti, & G. Tarabout (Eds.), Territory, Soil and Society in South Asia (203-239). Manohar
Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper
Standing, G. Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity. Geneva, SwitzerlandThe 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/s11205-007-9202-7Casualisation 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/10.1177/097370302008010The 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.
The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions (2008)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2008). The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions. Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(2), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185607087908Just prior to the 2007 General Election, a group of labour lawyers and economists, broadly sympathetic to the Labor Party, produced a Charter of Employment Rights. This article examines the Charter's proposals and its underlying framework, and sugges... Read More about The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions.
Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan (2008)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C. (2008). Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan. In S. Stromquist (Ed.), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (258-290). University of Illinois PressThis chapter examines how in Occupied Japan customary expectations about gender roles combined with the ideological stand-off that characterized relations between labor activists and military government bureaucrats to reenforce women’s secondary stat... Read More about Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan.