Guy Standing

Newspaper Articles and Interviews 

"Solidariteit met de stakers, nadenken in Davos en de val van de middenklasse", Terzake (Belgian TV), 27 January 2012. Clips 

"UK graduates feel insecure, abandoned" (interview), PressTV, 17 December 2011. View 

"Er is nog altijd ruimte voor een links beleid" (interview), knack.be, 7 December 2011. View 

"Precariat: Interview with Guy Standing" (interview), International Socialist Group Scotland, 24 November 2011. View 

"Unsettled and out of the mainstream" (article), News & Observer (NC, United States), 15 November 2011. View 

"'The Precariat' on rise in America" (article), The Republic (MA, United States), 30 October 2011. View 

"Job insecurity for millions is fuelling social unrest, expert warns" (interview), Western Mail, 26 October 2011. View 

Radio interview on the Precariat with FM4 (Vienna), 17 October 2011. Listen

"End of a Faustian bargain" (blog), Next Left - a Fabian Society blog, 12 October 2011. View 

"Ocupar Wall Street será sólo el principio" (interview), El Confidencial (Spain), 4 October 2011. View

"Razred, ki bo sesul svet?" (interview), Finance (Slovenia), 23 September 2011, pp.6-7. 

“Die neue gefährliche Klasse” (article), Berliner Republik, 4/11, September 2011, pp.61-67. 

“Prekariusze wszystkich krajów” (interview), Polityka (Poland), 7-13 September 2011, pp.20-24. View

"Anniversary note: BIEN's 25th" (article), Basic Income News, 4 September 2011. View Also in Italian

"Prekarijat: Ovaj čovjek otkrio je novu klasu koja ce zapaliti svïjet" (interview), Globus (Croatia), 26 August 2011, pp.32-38.

"Stirrings of the new dangerous class" (article on the riots in English cities), 12 August 2011. View

"Social insurance is not for the Indian open economy of 21st century" (interview), Times of India, 9 July 2011. View 

"Randomised trials" (letter), The Guardian, 8 June 2011. View 

"The Precariat", contribution to Recovery with a Human Face Network, 2 June 2011. 

"Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat?" (article), The Guardian, 1 June 2011. View 

"Give cash some credit" (article), Indian Express, 28 May 2011. View 

"The true cost of high executive pay" (letter), The Guardian, 19 May 2011. View 

"A generation will struggle with no secure social and economic identity", interview with Manchester Business School, 21 March 2011. View 

"Barely making ends meet in the flexible labour market" (video interview), The Guardian, 16 February 2011. View 

"Workfare and the cost of benefits" (letter), The Guardian, 13 November 2010. View 

"Ukraine vote goes to the highest bidder" (letter), The Guardian, 10 February 2010. View 

"Thoughts on getting people into work" (letter), The Guardian, 8 December 2009, p.27. View 

"Nomadi urbani contro il liberismo" (interview), Il Manifesto, 26 November 2009. p.11. View

"Support people rather than jobs" (letter), The Guardian, 25 March 2009. View

"Cash transfers leading to a basic income" (article), Asuntos Del Sur, January 2009. View 

"An ailing ILO" (interview), New Unionism Newswire, October 2008. View  

“Giving cash is the easiest way to respond to poverty” (letter), Financial Times, 1 October 2005. View

“Voiceless workers are left vulnerable” (interview), Cape Times, 13 May 2005. View

"Of globalisation and new insecurities" (interview), Frontline (The Hindu), Vol.21, Issue 22, 23 October-5 November 2004. View 

"Economic insecurity most important problem of working class" (interview), Business Line (The Hindu), 4 October 2004. View 

"Researcher sees a rise in employment insecurity: 73 percent of world's workers have weak safety net" (interview), Washington Times, 13 September 2004. 

"Economic insecurity is a global crisis" (interview), ILO Online, September 2004. View 

“Labour subsidies may harm global trading system” (letter), Financial Times, 23 December 2003. View

“Iraqi oil scheme must be made sustainable” (letter), Financial Times, 26 June 2003. View

“Russia has taught us the pitfalls of paternalism” (letter advocating basic income for Iraq), Financial Times, 8 April 2003. View

"Employment subsidies are superficially appealing but deeply flawed" (article), Business Day, 6 March 2001. View

"Tackling the jobless" (article), Mail & Guardian, 29 November 1996. View  

"Social pact to get SA back on track" (article), Mail & Guardian, 28 June 1996. View

"Wage flexibility greater than bosses, unions care to admit" (article), Business Day, 24 June 1996. 

“When work is a perk” (interview), Financial Times, 13 November 1993.

“Einkommen ist Bürgerrecht. Die Sozialversicherung muß durch ein steuerfinanziertes Grundgehalt ersetzt werden” (article), Die Zeit, 25 November 1988. View

“Profit sharing - placebo or cure for the jobless” (article), The Guardian, 13 March 1985.