Author: Guy Standing

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Guy Standing is Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization. He is Chairman of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN). He has written and edited numerous books, including “Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality” (Verso, 2002) and “Global Labour Flexibility: Seeking Distributive Justice” (Macmillan, 1999).




23 Ebooks by Guy Standing

Guy Standing: Promoting Income Security as a Right
This book is about an idea that has a long and distinguished pedigree, the idea of a right to a basic income. This means having a modest income guaranteed – a right without conditions, just as every …
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€34.99
Guy Standing: The Corruption of Capitalism
Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the …
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€7.19
Standing Guy Standing: Basic Income
Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic …
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€35.51
Renana Jhabvala & Uma Rani: Social Income and Insecurity
Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink ol …
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€68.51
Renana Jhabvala & Uma Rani: Social Income and Insecurity
Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink ol …
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€68.39
Guy Standing: Basic Income
‘Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it…as we move into an age where work and leisure become blurred, and work dissociated from incomes, …
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€8.49
Guy Standing: Plunder of the Commons
‘One of the most important books I’ve read in years’ Brian Eno We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off …
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€9.49
Prof. Guy Standing: The Precariat
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, …
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€17.93
Prof. Guy Standing: 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 …
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€18.24
Mr Sarath Davala & Renana Jhabvala: Basic Income
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as …
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€27.71
Guy Standing: Precariado: una carta de derchos
En su libro El precariado. Una nueva clase social, Guy Standing introducía el concepto de ‘precariado’ como una clase masiva emergente a la que se le han negado derechos políticos, civiles, sociales …
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Spanish
€9.99
Guy Standing: Work after Globalization
In this ground-breaking book, Guy Standing offers a new perspective on work and citizenship, rejecting the labourist orientation of the 20th century. Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation marked …
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€38.13
Guy Standing & Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead: 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 poverty rates have risen dramatically. In most countries during that period, …
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€59.55
Guy Standing: Blue Commons
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 ‘A landmark book… The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.’ – David Bollier’With …
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€10.99
Guy Standing: Prekariat
Neoliberalismus, Globalisierung und institutioneller Wandel haben einen wachsenden Teil der Bevölkerung wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bedingungen ausgesetzt, die denen einer neu entstehenden Klasse …
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German
€15.99
Anne Alstott & Bruce Ackerman: Redesigning Distribution
Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright. Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system …
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€23.99
Guy Standing: Politics of Time
‘Guy Standing’s books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda … His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work’ …
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€14.99
Peter Peek & Guy Standing: State Policies and Migration
First published in 1982, State Policies and Migration is a study on migration-related government action. This book consists of analyses of various rural reforms and industrial strategies in eight …
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€63.32
Peter Peek & Guy Standing: State Policies and Migration
First published in 1982, State Policies and Migration is a study on migration-related government action. This book consists of analyses of various rural reforms and industrial strategies in eight …
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English
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€63.57
Julen Bollain Urbieta: Renta básica: una herramienta de futuro (epub)
En la próxima década nos enfrentaremos a unos cambios que nunca antes hemos conocido y lo haremos con una herencia nefasta: daños económicos, medioambientales y con una mayoría social que ha …
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Spanish
€12.99
Guy Standing: The Precariat
This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The …
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€19.52
Guy Standing: The Precariat
This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The …
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€19.66