Guy Standing (economist)

Guy Standing

Standing in February 2014
Born (1948-02-09) 9 February 1948
Nationality British
Institution Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Field Unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Awards Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Guy Standing, FAcSS (born 9 February 1948)[1] is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London,[2] and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).[3]

Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. His recent work has concerned the emerging precariat class and the need to move towards unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy.[4]

Education

Guy Standing gained his degree in economics from the University of Sussex in 1971. After taking a masters in labour economics and industrial relations at the University of Illinois, he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1977.[5]

Career

From 1975 to 2006, Standing worked at the International Labour Organization, latterly as director of the ILO's Socio-Economic Security Programme.[5] The programme was responsible for a major report on socio-economic security worldwide[6] and for creation of the Decent Work Index.[7] In 2006 he became professor of economic security at the University of Bath, leaving in 2013 to become professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.[5]

The Precariat

Standing's best-known book is The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, published in 2011.[8] In it, he blames globalisation for having plunged more and more people into the precariat, which he analyses as a new emerging social class.[9] According to Standing, the precariat is not only suffering from job insecurity but also identity insecurity and lack of time control, not least due to workfare social policies.

Standing describes the precariat as an agglomerate of several different social groups, notably immigrants, young educated people, and those who have fallen out of the old-style industrial working class.[10]

Standing calls on politicians to make ambitious social reforms towards ensuring financial security as a right. He argues for an unconditional basic income as an important step to a new approach.[11] If politicians fail to take the necessary decisions, he predicts a wave of anger and violence, [12] and the rise of far-right parties.[13]

Honours

Selected bibliography

Books

Journal articles

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Standing, Guy". Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 July 2014. found: His Population mobility and productive relations, 1984: CIP t.p. (Guy Standing) data sheet (b. 2/9/48)
  2. ↑ "Professor Guy Standing, Department of Development Studies". School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.basicincome.org/bien/aboutbien.html.
  4. ↑ Standing, Guy (27 January 2012). "The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy". openDemocracy. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 Standing, Guy. "Career". Guy Standing. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Economic security for a better world
  7. ↑ Standing, Guy; Bonnet, Florence; Figueiredo, José B. (June 2003). "A family of decent work indexes". International Labour Review (Wiley) 142 (2): 213–238. doi:10.1111/j.1564-913X.2003.tb00259.x.
  8. ↑ Standing, Guy (2011). The precariat. City: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781849664554.
  9. ↑ Standing, Guy (19 August 2012). "Britain's labour figures hide the real hours we work every day". The Guardian | Comment is free. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  10. ↑ Smoczyński, Wawrzyniec (15 September 2011). "Youthful members of the full-time precariat". Vox Europ | Polityka | Economy | Social Issues | Economic Crisis. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  11. ↑ Why the precariat requires a basic income (Prof. Guy Standing) (ENG) on YouTube Conference in Ljubljana. BKTVkanal (3 November 2012). Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  12. ↑ Standing, Guy (1 June 2011). "Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat?". The Guardian | Comment is free. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  13. ↑ Presenter: Elenanor Hall (9 February 2012). "The World Today: The dangers of the rising global protest movement (interview with Guy Standing)". ABC News.
  14. ↑ "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

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