Development Seminar

Friday, October 26, 12-2pm,

University College room 179

Guy Standing is Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath in the UK. From 1999 until March 2006, he was Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Standing is a founder member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). He has written on labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies, and social protection policy.His most recent book is The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (London and New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011). Earlier books include: Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat, with Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala and Uma Rani (New Delhi, Routledge, 2010); Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009); Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America (London, Anthem Press, 2005); Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality (London, Verso, 2002); and Global Labour Flexibility: Seeking Distributive Justice (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999).