Dr Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and co-founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Subjects of recent books include basic income, rentier capitalism and the growing precariat. He is a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK budget: King Canute and the triumph of moralism over moralityGeorge Osborne's emergency budget reveals a government more concerned with moralising than any actual morals.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLet there be a Runnymede LeftAs 800th anniversary celebrations loom, it's time for the left to reclaim the Magna Carta.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMagna Carta: what prospects for a Precariat Charter?The events surrounding the signing of Magna Carta 800 years ago may sound more familiar to readers than they might expect...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDenizens and the PrecariatAn extract from Guy Standing's new book, A Precariat Charter, from Bloomsbury, and available here.
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Published in: HomeWhy the precariat is not a “bogus concept”The precariat, a class-in-the-making, is the first mass class in history that has systematically been losing rights...
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Published in: HomeThe 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...