Preface Abbreviations 1 The Precariat 2 Why the Precariat is Growing 3 Who Enters the Precariat 4 Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes? 5 Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze 6 A Politics of inferno 7 A Politics of Paradise Bibliography Index
A revised edition of Guy Standing's cult book, the first to document the Precariat, an emerging class around the world, facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.
Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He has previously been Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath, UK, Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University, Australia and Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization. He is co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network. His recent books include Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (2009) and Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality (2002).
A very important book
*Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA*
Buy Guy Standing's book, The Precariat! Or nick/borrow it!
*John Harris, The Guardian*
This important and original book brings out the political dangers,
so clear in contemporary America, of failing to address the
insecurities of the Precariat. It also suggests the way forward: a
reconstruction of the concept of work.
*Eileen Applebaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research,
Washington DC, USA*
Guy Standing provides an incisive account of how precariousness is
becoming the new normality in globalised labour markets, and offers
important guidelines for all concerned to build a more just
society.
*Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK*
This is an important book.
*Citizen's Income Newsletter*
Standing has produced a well-informed and important book
investigating, for the first time in a comprehensive way, the
direction in which global economic security is moving in the 21st
century. The book is packed with statistics presented in a very
readable form and drawing on extensive published research. It is a
compelling account of economic insecurity.
*Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation*
Over 90% of workers in India are informal, poorly paid, without any
economic security. Guy Standing combines vision with practicality
in outlining policies that are urgently needed to provide security
to workers such as these around the world.
*Renana Jhabvala, Self-Employed Women’s Association of India*
[T]here is much in The Precariat to recommend it to labor
educators, labor studies scholars, and activists of all sorts...a
book that provides a clear and detailed understanding of how the
situation of precarious employment affects the lives of the
“precariat” individually, collectively, day to day, and over the
longer term. This is the book’s greatest value. Standing does this
with many international examples, even though his main intellectual
base is in Britain. His analysis of the impact of precarity, along
with the diversity of examples from around the world, makes this
the primary book on the topic to date.
*Labor Studies Journal*
In summary, the analysis and arguments are compelling, for The
Precariat brings together and develops many current strands of
thought within the (social science) literature, and builds on the
materialist tradition which ultimately leads to a rejection of
'neoliberalism'. Standing captures some of the collectivist social
policy tradition established by Richard Titmuss, but with more
attention to all forms of work and notions of occupational
citizenship...The social policy community needs to engage more with
issues at stake here, making The Precariat essential reading.
*Journal of Social Policy*
The most challenging proposal here is probably the one urging
states to grant all citizens individually a modest basic income,
without conditions or behavioural rules, but Standing provides the
most brilliant, succinct and clear-eyed exposition of its economic
and social advantages available so far.
*E-International Relations*
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