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Current ProjectsDr Standing has just completed a book on occupations, linked to the global transformation of work and labour (Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship, Cheltenham, 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. A key question linking these themes is whether or not a global labour market model is emerging. Current research interests include: social and economic security; cash transfers and basic income; labour economics; labour, work and occupation; economic rights; occupational communities; and globalisation and social protection policy. Dr Standing is currently advisor to SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association of India) on a survey of rural and urban households in the state of Gujarat, focusing on an experimental concept of “social income” and economic insecurity. A book on the survey results is due for publication in 2010 (Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala and Uma Rani, Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat, New Delhi, Routledge). |
