Former Programme Director, International Labour Organization. Currently, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London. Hon. Co-President, BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network). Fellow, British Academy of Social Sciences. Author of: Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (2017); The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016); A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014); The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011). Co-Author, Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (2015).
The time has come for a new income distribution system - one that boosts real wages and tackles automation and populism head on, writes Guy Standing.
From free markets to patents, the cornerstones of globalization are dangerous delusions, says Guy Standing in the second of his three-part series on modern capitalism.
Zero-hour contracts, unpaid internships and the sharing economy are driving an entire demographic towards the far right.
