Commentators: Elísio Estanque (CES/FEUC) and José Reis (CES/FEUC)

Bio

Guy Standing is Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and a founder member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a citizenship income for all.  Professor Standing has just completed a book on the global precariat, an emerging class characterised by insecurity and lack of any occupational identity (The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011). The book takes up one of the themes in his more comprehensive analysis of the global transformation of work and labour (Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship, Edward Elgar, 2009).Recurrent themes of his research, often drawing on extensive household and workplace surveys, have been the insecurities faced by workers in the wake of reforms of labour law, labour regulation and social protection, and the rationale for moving towards unconditional income transfers.

Manuel Carvalho da Silva

Recent books published
Standing, G., 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Standing, G., Unni, J., Jhabvala, R. and Rani, U., 2010. Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat. India: Routledge.
Standing, G., 2009. Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Organization:
Doctoral Programme "Labour Relations, Social Inequality and Trade Unionism", Doctoral Programme in Sociology (FEUC), Research Group in Social Policies, Labour and Inequalities (POSTRADE) and Research Group in Sociology (FEUC).