Recent Publications
Books
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty (London: Penguin, 2023). Details
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class - Special Covid-19 Edition (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea (London: Penguin, 2022). Details
Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (London: Penguin, 2019).
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (London: Penguin, 2017).
Details ● Translations ● Video
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (London: Biteback, hardback 2016; paperback 2017).
Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (with S. Davala, R. Jhabvala and S. Kapoor Mehta (London and New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011; Second edition 2014; Third edition [Revelations series] 2016).
A full list of books can be found here.
Reports
‘Recovery dividends’: An Emergency Basic Income for Palestine (Ramallah: Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), February 2024). PDF
Feasibility Analysis of Basic Income for Women in Nepal, with Sarath Davala, Sujatha Srinivasan and Ram Narayan Shrestha, for UN Development Programme, Nepal and UN Women, Nepal (Chennai, India: LEAD (Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development) at Krea University, March 2023). PDF
A full list of reports can be found here. A full list of working papers can be found here.
Book Chapters
“Crear un fondo de capital común [Building a commons capital fund]” in B. Lain (ed.), Ni público ni privado, ¿sinon común? Usos, conceptos y comunidades en torno a los bienes comunes y la(s) propiedad(es) (Manresa, Spain: Bellaterra Edicions, 2023). English text
“The era of chronic uncertainty: A transformational opportunity”, in K. Arabadjieva et al. (eds), Transformative Ideas - Ensuring a Just Share of Progress for All (Brussels: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), 2023), pp.105-120. Text
“Privatization, poverty and responsible leadership”, in M. Saks, Responsible Leadership Essential to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), p.103.-110.
“Work and commoning: The past as the future”, in R. Hafner, R. Nilsson and M. Thörnkvist, We Work, We Share, We Care: Value Creation in an Era of Climate Disruption (Malmö: Media Evolution, 2022).
“Gender inequality in times of COVID-19 - give women cash”, in UNESCO, Basic Income - On Data and Policy (Paris: UNESCO Policy Papers 02, 2021). Text
“Revive the commons!’, in P. Allen, S.J. Konzelmann and J. Toporowski (eds), The Return of the State: Restructuring Britain for the Common Good (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Agenda Publishing, 2021).
A full list of book chapters can be found here.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Basic income pilots: Uses, limitations and design principles”, Basic Income Studies, 16(1), June 2021, pp.75-99. PDF
“Basic income as common dividends: A rejoinder”, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 40(2), Winter 2019, pp.239-245.
A full list of journal articles can be found here.
Articles and Interviews (Selected)
'“The precariat election: Ignoring class and insecurity imperils Labour” (article), Labour Hub, 19 May 2026. View Reposted by Open Democracy, 29 May 2026. View
“The rise of the precariat: Guy Standing on the future of work and basic income”, Stay Spiritual, 19 May 2026. Podcast
“Free speech? Europe and America must strengthen parrhesia” (article), Other News, 12 February 2026. View
“Has the education commons been enclosed” (article), Tribune, 26 January 2026. View
“The government must transform education” (article), Labour Hub, 20 January 2026. View
“Private finance is strangling British education” (article), Prospect, 16 January 2026. View
“Why European universities must not follow America’s” (article), Social Europe, 4 December 2025. View
“Guy Standing: How the system is failing the 99%”, Extrapolate with Rob Hof, 28 November 2025. Podcast
“Trump’s destruction of maritime law raises the risk of war” (article), Project Syndicate, 14 October 2025. View
“Common grievance” (interview about the commons and commoning), The Mint Magazine, 4 October 2025. View
“How financialisation is corroding education in the UK”, Open Democracy, 16 September 2025. View
“Trump risks a ‘gold rush’ on the high seas”, Prospect, 17 May 2025. View This article was reposted as “Trump tears up law of the sea and risks war’, 3 June 2025, by Ocean Rebellion linked to its own video on deep sea mining. View
“The left ignored the precariat - Trump didn’t. A warning from Guy Standing”, Lost Dollar Business Club, 3 May 2025. Podcast
“The left must embrace the precariat'“, Labour Hub, 10 April 2025. View A revised version of this blog was published in Other News, 22 April 2025. View
“Guy Standing: Universal basic … rights?”, Life Hertz, 25 March 2025. Podcast
“The road to neoliberalism: The 12,000 year war” with Yanis Varoufakis and others, Institute of Art and Ideas, 21 March 2025. Video
“Statistical hazards can plague the way we measure inequality” (letter), Financial Times, 13 January 2025. View
“Interview of Guy Standing re emergency basic income”, Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), 10 January 2025. PDF
“Can the commons be the left’s ethical ground” (blog), Labour Hub, 29 December 2024. View
“On the precariat with Guy Standing”, Where Shall We Meet?, 11 December 2024. Podcast
“‘It can’t happen here’ could happen here” (blog), Labour Hub, 7 December 2024. View
“It could happen here: why Trump 2.0 is a warning for Rachel Reeves” (article), Prospect, 16 November 2024. View
“Why privatization is fueling inequality”, Lost Dollar Business Club, 19 October 2024. Podcast
“How rentier capitalism is destroying democracy and equality”, Lost Dollar Business Club, 27 September 2024. Podcast
“The Labour government needs a cabinet minister for the sea” (blog), Labour Hub, 25 September 2024. View
“Fetichizing jobs”, The Political Orphanage, 19 September 2024. Podcast
“The deep green sea?” [A review article of The High Seas by Olive Heffernan and What the Wild Sea Can Be by Helen Scales], Times Literary Supplement, 23 and 30 August 2024.
“A US basic income experiment that wasn’t”, Basic Income News, 5 August 2024. PDF :: in German
“This is a pivotal moment for deep-sea mining” (letter), The Guardian, 1 August 2024. View
“How Labour should govern the seas” (article), Prospect, 30 July 2024. View
“Inequalities, the precariat, and development alternatives after neoliberalism: A conversation on economic justice with Guy Standing” (interview, in Thai), The101.World (Thailand), 16 July 2024. View
“‘Todos los viejos modelos de estado del bienestar desaparecieron hace tiempo.’ Entrevista a Guy Standing [‘All the old welfare state models are long gone.’ Interview with Guy Standing]”, Sin Permiso (Spain), 11 June 2024. View
“Die Reichsten sahnen ab [The richest reap the rewards]”, Welt-Sichten (Germany), No.3, 2024, pp.22-24.
Contributor to The Waste Land, a film by Chris Teerink illustrating the poem by T.S. Elliot, released April 2024. Trailer
“Why we need a ‘politics of time’” (article), Apolitical, 29 January 2024. View
A fuller list of articles and interviews can be found here and more podcasts and videos here.