Guy Standing

Who is Guy Standing?

Guy Standing is a British Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network and author of several books, including The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class and Work After Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship. 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.