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Recent Publications (since 2007)

 

Books

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (London and New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011). Details Video 

Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat, with J. Unni, R. Jhabvala and U. Rani (New Delhi, Routledge, 2010). Details 

Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2009). Order paperback Order book

 

Reports

The Labour Market and Labour Policies in Gauteng (mimeo, 2010), background report for OECD Territorial Review: Gauteng City Region, South Africa (Paris, OECD, 2011). Report details 

Towards a Basic Income Grant for All: Basic Income Grant Pilot Project Assessment Report, contributor (Windhoek, Basic Income Grant Coalition, Sept. 2008). Report

Report on the World Social Situation 2007: The Employment Imperative, main contributor (New York, United Nations, 2007). Download PDF Summary :: Download PDF Full Report

Building a Progressive Flexibility in South Africa: Labour and Social Policy for the 21st Century (Pretoria, Department of Labour, 2007), mimeo.

 

Book Chapters

"How cash transfers promote work and economic security", in J.K. Sundaram and A. Chowdhury (eds.), Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies (London and New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), pp.197-221. 

"Respondendo à crise da transformação global: porque uma renda básica é necessária" ["Responding to the Global Transformation crisis: Why a basic income is necessary"], in Políticas Sociais para o desenvolvimento: Superar a probreza e promover a inclusão (Brasília, Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, UNESCO, 2010), pp.51-71. In Portugese  

"Social protection", in A. Cornwall and D. Eade (eds.), Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords (Rugby, UK, Practical Action Publishing, 2010), pp.53-67. Details 

"Il precariato: il reddito di base in una politica del paradiso", in Basic Income Network Italia, Reddito per tutti: Un'utopia concreta per l'era globale (Rome, Manifestolibri, 2009), pp. 72-85. Details

“Labor recommodification in the Global Transformation”, in A. Buğra and K. Ağartan (eds.), Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century: Market Economy as a Political Project (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp.67-93. Also in Turkish.

“Employment and unemployment in Africa”, in New Encyclopedia of Africa (New York, Gale, 2007).

“Offshoring and labor recommodification in the Global Transformation”, in E. Paus (ed.), Global Capitalism Unbound: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp.41-60.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

"Labour market policies, poverty and insecurity", International Journal of Social Welfare, Vol.20, No.3, 2011, pp.200-269. 

"Behavioural conditionality: Why the nudges must be stopped - an opinion piece", Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Vol.19, No.1, 2011, pp.27-38. 

"Responding to the crisis: Economic stabilisation grants", Policy & Politics, Vol.39, No.1, 2011, pp.9-25. 

"Targeting to the 'poor': Clogged pipes and bureaucratic blinkers" (with Renana Jhabvala), Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.XLV, Nos.26-27, 26 June 2010, pp.239-246. Published in French as « Le ‘ciblage’ des politiques sociales indiennes : entre inefficacité et iniquité » in L’Inde : une modernité controversée, Alternatives Sud, Vol.8, No.3, 2011, pp.141-149.

"Global monitor: The International Labour Organization", New Political Economy, Vol.15, No.2, June 2010, pp.307-318. 

Book review - "Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India's Manufacturing Industry by Sunanda Sen and Byasdeb Dasgupta", Development and Change, Vol.41, No.1, Jan. 2010, pp.188-189. 

"Global employment: Two reports in search of the problem", Development and Change, Vol.40, No.6, 2009, pp.1319-1337. 

Book review - "Cohen, D.: Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society", Journal of Economics, Vol.98, No.3, 2009, pp.261-266.

"Work and occupation in a tertiary society", Labour and Industry, Vol.19, No.3, Apr. 2009, pp.49-72.

“Economic insecurity and global casualisation: Threat or promise?”, Social Indicators Research, Vol.88, No.1, Aug. 2008, pp.15-30. Details

"Reviving egalitarianism in the Global Transformation: Building occupational security", Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol.2, No.1, Jan.-Jun. 2008, pp.39-62.

“The ILO: An agency for globalization?”, Development and Change, Vol.39, No.3, May 2008, pp.355-384. pdf Details

“How cash transfers promote the case for basic income”, Basic Income Studies, Vol.3, No.1, April 2008, pp.1-30. pdf Details

“The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions”, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.50, No.2, April 2008, pp.355-366. Details

“Social protection”, Development in Practice, Vol.17, Nos.4-5, Aug. 2007, pp.511-522. Details

 

Other Journal Articles

"The Precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy", Open Democracy, 27 January 2012. View 

"End of a Faustian pact: Workfare and riots", Poverty (Journal of the Child Poverty Action Group), No.140, Autumn 2011, pp.11-14.  View 

"Precariato", Rivista delle Politiche Sociali (Italian Journal of Social Policy), No.3, July-September 2011.

"The precariat: The new dangerous class?", Poverty (Journal of the Child Poverty Action Group), No. 139, Summer 2011, p.17.

"The precariat: The new dangerous class", Policy Network, 24 May 2011. View 

"Workfare and the precariat", Soundings, No.47, Spring 2011, pp.35-43. 

"Workfare: Ed Miliband's defining challenge?", New Left Project, 26 Jan. 2011. Text 

Working Papers

HR Practices, Innovation and Establishment Outcomes: Evidence from China (with Peter Gahan and Marco Michelotti), (Melbourne, Monash University Department of Management, Feb. 2010). Details 

Labour Market Policies, Poverty and Insecurity (Geneva, UN Research Institute for Social Development, Nov. 2008). Text

Decent Workplaces, Self-Regulation and CSR: From Puff to Stuff?, DESA Working Paper No.62 (New York, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Nov. 2007). Download

How Cash Transfers Boost Work and Economic Security, DESA Working Paper No.58 (New York, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Oct. 2007). Download See also Conditional Cash Transfers: Why Targeting and Conditionalities Could Fail, One Pager No.47 (Brasilia, International Poverty Centre, Dec. 2007), in English, French, Spanish and Portugese.

 

Newspaper articles and interviews (selected)

"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", 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

"Onzeker, boos en gevaarlijk" (interview), De Standaard, 1-2 October 2011. View 

"Le précariat, nouvelle classe dangereuse" (interview), Gauchebdo (Switzerland), 30 September 2011, p.2. 

"Labour: Of principles and popularity" (letter), The Guardian, 26 September 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 

"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