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.

(Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, May). (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse. Paper presented at Queer Perspectives on Law: Sharing Reflections, SOAS Spring Queer Legal Theory Workshop, SOAS, University of London

This paper comparatively examines some present-day perceptions of the concepts of law and justice by sexually- and/or gender-variant Muslim communities, living in Muslim-majority states. Firstly, it analyses their encounters with two hegemonic identi... Read More about (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse.

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.

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.

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.