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Recent Publications (Since 2005)

 

Books

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

Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America, edited (London, Anthem Press, 2004, revised 2005). Details

 

Reports

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.

Economic Security for a Better World, editor and coordinating writer (Geneva, ILO, 2004, revised 2005). Also in French. Details

 

Book Chapters

"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.

“Labour markets”, in D. A. Clark (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2006), pp.323-328.

“CIG, COAG and COG: A comment on a debate”, in B. Ackerman, A. Alstott and P. van Parijs, Redesigning Distribution: Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism (London and New York, Verso, 2006), pp.175-195. pdf

“Introduction”, in G. Standing (ed.), Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America (Anthem Press, London, 2005), pp.xiii-xx.

“About time: Basic income security as a right”, in G. Standing (ed.), Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America (Anthem Press, London, 2005), pp.1-40.

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

"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. 

"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

“Why basic income is needed for the right to work”, Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy, Special Issue, Vol.2, No.1, Fall 2005. Details

 

Other Journal Articles

“Perché il basic income in Italia”, Infoxoa 020 – revista di quotidiano movimento, Oct. 2006, pp.71-79. pdf

“Tsunami recovery grants”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XL, No.6, 5 Feb. 2005, pp.510-514. Details

 

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.

A New Dawn? The Ukrainian People’s Security Survey, 2004, Programme on Socio-Economic Security Papers No. 48 (Geneva, ILO, 2005). Download

 

Newspaper articles and interviews (selected)

"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