Guy Standing
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 94394 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Guy Standing |
| NOMBRES | Guy |
| APELLIDO | Standing |
| FIRMA | STANDING G |
| AFILIACIONES | International Labour Organization |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1044 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries
New Perspectives on Turkey roundtable on Ayşe Buğra’s book
We are happy to publish a roundtable debate based on the discussions carried out at the webinar organized by our journal to discuss Ayşe Buğra’s latest book, Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society . Buğra’s important contribution to the field of social policy is critically evaluated by Guy Standing, Andrew Fischer, and Tuba Ağartan. Social policy is an important field for New Perspectives on Turkey , one in…
State Policies and Migration
Battling Eight Giants
"Today in one the richest countries in the world, 60% of households in poverty have people in jobs, inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years, climate change threatens our extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of precarity. The solution? Basic Income. Here, Guy Standing, the leading expert on the concept, explains how to solve the new eight evils of modern life, and all for almost zero net cost. There is a bett…
Battling Eight Giants
Today in one the richest countries in the world, 60% of households in poverty have people in jobs, inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years, climate change threatens our extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of precarity. The solution? Basic Income. Here, Guy Standing, the leading expert on the concept, explains how to solve the new eight evils of modern life, and all for almost zero net cost. There is a bette…
Basic Income
The Precariat in China
This comment critiques the concept of “the informal sector” and explains the meaning of the precariat in considering the perspectives of the authors of the articles in this special issue. (This article is in English.)
Alternatywy dla dochodu podstawowego
A chapter of Guy Standing's book „Basic Income: And How Can We Make It Happen”. The author analyses several policies aimed at dealing with economic crises, inequality and poverty: minimum wage, contributory social insurance, means-tested social assistance, subsidized food, tax credits, workfare and job guarantee. He evaluates those policies with regard to social justice principles and compares them with basic income
The Precariat and Class Struggle
The world economy is in the midst of a Global Transformation that is producing a new global class structure. A new class is emerging – the precariat – characterised by chronic uncertainty and insecurity. Although the precariat is still a classin-the-making, divided within itself, its elements are united in rejecting old mainstream political traditions. To become a transformative class, however, the precariat needs to move beyond the primitive re…
Basic Income
Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context in which the Indian government at national and state levels spends a vast amount on subsidies and selective schemes that are chronically expensive,…
Andrew J. Cherlin, Labor's Love Lost
The Precariat
Economist Guy Standing explains how millions of people are in the precariat, and in defining this emerging class, points to the dangerous political and social consequences as well as the exciting progressive revival that this class could produce.
A Precariat Charter
Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a mo…
O precariado e a luta de classes
A economia mundial encontrase em plena Transformação Global, produzindo uma nova estrutura de classes a nível global. Está a surgir uma nova classe – o precariado –, que se caracteriza por incerteza e insegurança crónicas. Embora o precariado esteja ainda em constituição, com divisões no seu seio, os seus elementos encontramse unidos na rejeição das velhas tradições políticas dominantes. Para se tornar uma classe transformadora, no entanto, o pr…
Understanding the Precariat through Labour and Work
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 distinctions between work and labour and between labour and labour power, and goes on to identify a globalizing class structure in which a 'precariat' is emerging as a potentially transformative new mass c…
Where’s Howard
Thanks are due to the three readers who took the trouble to read and comment on The Precariat.One of the features of that fascinating masque Comus is that Milton gave the devil the best lines.The best critiques are those that represent the author correctly, and I would like particularly to thank Jorg Wiegratz for trying to do that.Jo Grady ends her critique by citing a pub doorman, Howard, but one really wonders if she described the precariat in …
Tertiary Time
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, in that what they do is largely covered by “services.” In a tertiary society, one iniquitous form of inequality is control of time. Time is a key asset. But we do not have a conceptualization of tertia…
The Precariat
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 relations. The precariat is a class-in-the-making, in that the global market system wants most workers to be flexible and insecure, even if it is not yet a class-for-itself, having a clear vision of what ty…
Beware the Lens of Low-Wage Labor
We lack a collective noun for a bevy of authors, but this book has no less than 26 named contributors, backed up by 11 project advisors and a team of 46 spread over six countries.It is a distinguished group of authorities in labour studies, united by social democratic values.Given all that, any sensible reviewer would approach the task with trepidation.One might risk offending one big elephant, but to risk the wrath of a herd would be career-thre…
The Diffusion of HR Practices in Chinese Workplaces and Organizational Outcomes
How relevant are human resource (HR) practices in economies undergoing significant economic transition from a command to a market-based system? Using data drawn from a large sample of Chinese establishments, the authors investigate the spread of a range of Western-style HR practices in China and estimate the relationship between the adoption of these practices and three organizational outcomes: sales per employee, total labor costs, and unit labo…
Why basic income is needed for a right to work
Minimum wages in Central and Eastern Europe
Since the late 1980s, incomes have fallen sharply in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, while unemployment and rates have risen dramatically. In most countries during that period, the statutory minimum wage has been supposed to be an anchor of the social protection system and the wage structure, protecting the low-paid and those dependent on state benefits. Unfortunately for those affected, the of the minimum wage has been allowed to d…
Care work
This insightful volume argues that care workers --those looking after children, the elderly, and people with disabilities --require security similar to any other group of workers. It provides a valuable overview and analysis of care work as a relevant social policy phenomenon in industrialized and developing countries around the world, while exploring pivotal questions such as how provisions for care are made, who is to benefit, and who is to pay…
Basic Income
The Corruption of Capitalism
A Precariat Charter
Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a mo…
Global feminization through flexible labor
Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor
The Precariat
Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs, without recourse to stable occupational identities or careers, stable social protection or protectiv…
The Precariat
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 relations. The precariat is a class-in-the-making, in that the global market system wants most workers to be flexible and insecure, even if it is not yet a class-for-itself, having a clear vision of what ty…
Understanding the Precariat through Labour and Work
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 distinctions between work and labour and between labour and labour power, and goes on to identify a globalizing class structure in which a 'precariat' is emerging as a potentially transformative new mass c…
The ILO
The International Labour Organization, set up in 1919 to develop and promote labour standards, is at a crucial point. It has preached that labour is not a commodity and in 1969 received the Nobel Peace Prize. Since then it has run into trouble. This article considers how the ILO has failed to come to terms with the Global Transformation, seeing it as trying to play three roles - a standard-setter, a technical assistance agency and a knowledge gen…
Social dumping, catch-up or convergence? Europe in a comparative global context
Behavioural conditionality
The use of behavioural conditionality has spread globally and is linked to the growth of behavioural economics and libertarian paternalism. This comment questions the ethics and effectiveness of this powerful trend and considers the alternative of moving towards universalism and unconditionality
Migration and modes of exploitation
Migration has been the subject of considerable research in recent years, much of it conducted by economists. This paper is an attempt to provide the basis of a general, materialist framework for research on population mobility. As such it pays particular attention to changing mechanisms of exploitation, which are typically ignored in conventional studies of migration. This article focuses on pre-capitalist relations of production restricting popu…
Economic Insecurity and Global Casualisation
The International Labour Organization
Tertiary Time
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, in that what they do is largely covered by “services.” In a tertiary society, one iniquitous form of inequality is control of time. Time is a key asset. But we do not have a conceptualization of tertia…
Towards Social Adjustment
Orthodox structural policy has tended to neglect labour policy or to treat labour market institutions and protective regulations as rigidities. This book argues that adjustment is more likely to improve labour market efficiency and income distribution. With the growth of informal and privatized production and flexible employment, new labour regulations, payment mechanisms and institutional safeguards are needed to ensure that the benefits of grow…
Labour Force Participation and Development
Journal Article Labour Force Participation and Development Get access Labour Force Participation and Development. By GUY STANDING. (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1978. Pp. xiii + 267. Sw Fr 30.00.) Peter Fallon Peter Fallon University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231912 Published: 01 Se…
Brave New Words? A Critique of Stiglitz's World Bank Rethink
While in the position of Chief Economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz produced a string of papers, one of which proposed moving beyond the 'Washington consensus' to a 'new development paradigm', which he hoped the World Bank would espouse. This article offers a critique of that paper and the premises underlying any attempt to reposition an international banking agency. In particular, it focuses on Stiglitz's attempt to jettison 'conditional…
Responding to the crisis
This article reviews some of the mainstream policies proposed to tackle the economic crisis of 2008-09 and its aftermath, and goes on to advocate a policy of economic stabilisation grants (ESGs). It argues that ESGs, which would be paid to every citizen at a rate that could be varied according to the severity of the crisis, would be more effective in boosting aggregate demand and more efficient in terms of resource allocation. Unlike the alternat…
Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
The Precariat in China
This comment critiques the concept of “the informal sector” and explains the meaning of the precariat in considering the perspectives of the authors of the articles in this special issue. (This article is in English.)
Societal Impoverishment
The economic and social reforms instigated in the Russian Federation since 1991 have been widely depicted as a success or as setting the framework for success. This article draws on various official and unofficial data to show the depths of poverty, inequality and distress that have been involved, including evidence on de clining life expectancy, rising morbidity, the erosion of schooling, lack of social protection and mass unemployment. The arti…
O precariado e a luta de classes
A economia mundial encontrase em plena Transformação Global, produzindo uma nova estrutura de classes a nível global. Está a surgir uma nova classe – o precariado –, que se caracteriza por incerteza e insegurança crónicas. Embora o precariado esteja ainda em constituição, com divisões no seu seio, os seus elementos encontramse unidos na rejeição das velhas tradições políticas dominantes. Para se tornar uma classe transformadora, no entanto, o pr…
Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity
Standing G. Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 260–269 © 2011 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. 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 pover…
The changing position of women in Russian industry
Where’s Howard
Thanks are due to the three readers who took the trouble to read and comment on The Precariat.One of the features of that fascinating masque Comus is that Milton gave the devil the best lines.The best critiques are those that represent the author correctly, and I would like particularly to thank Jorg Wiegratz for trying to do that.Jo Grady ends her critique by citing a pub doorman, Howard, but one really wonders if she described the precariat in …
Social protection
The term ‘social protection’ has been widely used around the world and is often treated as synonymous with ‘social security’, which is misleading. This article considers the numerous terms that have become part of the language of social protection, indicating that the image conveyed by the term is rather different from what is meant by it
Aspiration wages, migration and urban unemployment
This paper considers the hypothesis that migrant job‐seekers have lower income aspirations than their non‐migrant counterparts in urban areas and argues that if so the urban unemployment rate may be an ineffective deterrent to migration while a reduction in urban wage rates may increase rather than reduce migration. The non‐deterrence of unemployment is even more likely if large numbers of urban unemployed become ‘unemployable’ through their expe…
Labour Force Participation and Development
Journal Article Labour Force Participation and Development Get access Labour Force Participation and Development. By GUY STANDING. (Geneva: International Labour Office, 1978. Pp. xiii + 267. Sw Fr 30.00.) Peter Fallon Peter Fallon University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231912 Published: 01 Se…
Labour Force Participation and Development
Unemployment and Female Labour
Migration and modes of exploitation
Migration has been the subject of considerable research in recent years, much of it conducted by economists. This paper is an attempt to provide the basis of a general, materialist framework for research on population mobility. As such it pays particular attention to changing mechanisms of exploitation, which are typically ignored in conventional studies of migration. This article focuses on pre-capitalist relations of production restricting popu…
Industrial Development and Migrant Labour
State Policy and Child Labour
Walter Rodney
(1983). Walter Rodney: A tribute. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 250-252
Migration Decision Making
Child Work, Poverty and Underdevelopment
Urban Migrants in Developing Nations
State Policies and Migration
State Policies and Migration
This book consists of analyses of various rural reform and industrial strategies in 8 Latin American and Caribbean countries: Chile Peru Ecuador Brazil Mexico Colombia Cuba and Guyana. Although many governments have expressed their concern over high rates of rural-urban migration and their determination to curb it their policies have substantially contributed to that migration. Rural-urban migration has been linked with the transformation of trad…
Labour Circulation and the Urban Labour Process
The author investigates aspects of labor circulation, which he defines as "temporary movement between geographical areas for work or in search of work....[He attempts to determine] what roles have been played by labour circulation in the development of urban-industrial labour forces in the transition to industrial capitalism." Factors considered include the exploitation and oppression of labor migrants; the industrial-urban labor reserve; urban s…
Migration Surveys in Low-Income Countries
This book is an attempt to assemble experience and to provide guidelines concerning data collection on migration with a focus on internal migration in low-income agrarian and industrializing countries. Chapters are included on theoretical perspectives on migration; conceptualizing territorial mobility; survey design; sample design; identification of migrants and collection of demographic and social information in migration surveys; migrants and t…
Migration Surveys in Low-Income Countries
Unemployment and the Recomposition of Labor Reserves
To understand unemployment in less developed countries, five forms of labor reserves should be distinguished: latent—not job-seeking but potentially available for the work force; stagnant—social dropouts; floating—moving in and out of the work force; active—job seekers; and employed—stop-gap reserves of enterprises. In the course of economic evolution people shift from one category to others. This continuous recomposition is heavily influenced by…
Global feminization through flexible labor
Observing the unemployed
Towards Social Adjustment
Orthodox structural policy has tended to neglect labour policy or to treat labour market institutions and protective regulations as rigidities. This book argues that adjustment is more likely to improve labour market efficiency and income distribution. With the growth of informal and privatized production and flexible employment, new labour regulations, payment mechanisms and institutional safeguards are needed to ensure that the benefits of grow…
Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility
The emerging Finnish Model of social labour markets is likely to be a source of growing international interest in the 1990s. This book examines Finland's reputation for economic dynamism and social welfare in the face of the challenges raised by structural adjustment. Prominence is given to the 1987 Employment Act, intended to promote near-full employment, and to initiatives to achieve income security and flexibility in working life
Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
In Search of Flexibility
Perestroika in the Soviet Union has necessitated a radical transformation of the labour market. This book encompasses a broad range of views of labour policy-makers and economists from the USSR and abroad. It analyzes recent developments in employment, unemployment, wages and social protection
Why Measured Unemployment in Russia Is So Low
National output has fallen drastically in Russia in the past three years, and there is evidence that employment has also fallen substantially. Yet officially unemployment has only risen to a little over 1 per cent. This paper argues that in reality unemployment is very substantially higher. It draws in part on a survey of job- seekers registering at employment exchanges in eighteen districts, and in part on an advisory report prepared for the Rus…
The changing position of women in Russian industry
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