Table of Contents

Preface to the Revelations edition

Previous edition 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

Promotional Information

A polemical and hugely influential work of political, social and economic theory which introduces the precariat as an emerging class.

About the Author

Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He is the author of the sequel to The Precariat, A Precariat Charter (2014) and co-author of Basic Income (2015).

Reviews

Buy Guy Standing's book, The Precariat! Or nick/borrow it!
*John Harris, The Guardian*

A very important book.
*Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA*

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*