Guy Standing FAcSS (born 9 February 1948) is a British labour economist. He is a professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).
Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He created the term precariat to describe an emerging class of workers who are harmed by low wages and poor job security because of globalization. Since the 2011 publication of his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, his work has focused on the precariat, unconditional basic income, deliberative democracy, and the commons.
Books in order of publication:
Global labour flexibility: seeking distributive justice. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1999.
Beyond the new paternalism: basic security as equality. London New York: Verso. 2002.
A Basic Income Grant for South Africa. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. 2003
Promoting income security as a right Europe and North America. London: Anthem Press. 2005.
Work after globalization: building occupational citizenship. Cheltenham, UK Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 2009.
Social income and insecurity: a study in Gujarat. London New York: Routledge. 2010
The Precariat. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2011.
A Precariat Charter: from denizens to citizens. London New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2014.
Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (with S. Davala, R. Jhabvala and S. Kapoor Mehta. London and New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay. London: Biteback. 2016.
Basic income: and how we can make it happen. London: Pelican/Penguin (A Pelican Introduction). 2017.
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea. London: Pelican Books. 2022.
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