Guy Standing (born 1948) is a British Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and author of several books, including The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (2009). He is a famous advocate of the unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy.
From 1975 to 2006 he worked at the International Labour Organization as a researcher on insecurity and flexibility of Labour. He is known for having created the Decent Work Index.Continue Reading »
