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A very important book. --Noam Chomsky
One of 2011's most insightful books. --John Harris, the Guardian
This is an important book. --Citizen's Income Newsletter
One of 2011's most insightful books. --John Harris, the Guardian
This is an important book. --Citizen's Income Newsletter
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Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls 'The Precariat' - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs, without recourse to stable occupational identities or careers, stable social protection or protective regulations relevant to them. They include migrants, but also locals. Standing argues that this class of people could produce new instabilities in society. They are increasingly frustrated and dangerous because they have no voice, and hence they are vulnerable to the siren calls of extreme political parties. He outlines a new kind of good society, with more people actively involved in civil society and the precariat re-engaged. He goes on to consider one way to a new better society - an unconditional basic income for everyone, contributed by the state, which could be topped up through earned incomes. This is a topical, and a radical book, which will appeal to a broad market concerned by the increasing problems of labour insecurity and civic disengagement.
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A rare case of academics being ahead of the public
2 Oct 2011
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Guy Standing is the very model of the temperate, discrete and research-oriented UK professoriat. But his book's genius is the laser-like light he shines onto what we see happening around us.
The public discourse of 'recovery' with its nostalgic sense of hoping to get back to things as they were is shown to be utterly out of touch with what is actually happening - most importantly to the youth whose efforts we hoped would support us in our declining years as well as carry us forward into the more competitive future.
Standing makes it clear there will be no going back. The framing here is matched by the situation in Europe - where no going back is possible either. Standing shows the conditions of work and politics are subtly and brutally related - and likewise related to the slowly clarifying crisis of American democracy. Our precariat - such as the Occupy Wall-street movement - still lacks name, identity and focus, just as the European precariat is still a movement or class in the making. But Standing shows that - most importantly - the impulse is not an easily dismissed resurgence of privileged student neo-Marxism. Something fundamentally new is happening.
Anyone wanting think seriously about where we go from here, rather than scream inanities at each other in the way those in Washington DC do, will find powerful angles and levers in this fine example of how the best academic work serve the public as they seek to grapple with their anxieties. It is a book in the tradition of Hobbes and Hume, or even Paine.
The public discourse of 'recovery' with its nostalgic sense of hoping to get back to things as they were is shown to be utterly out of touch with what is actually happening - most importantly to the youth whose efforts we hoped would support us in our declining years as well as carry us forward into the more competitive future.
Standing makes it clear there will be no going back. The framing here is matched by the situation in Europe - where no going back is possible either. Standing shows the conditions of work and politics are subtly and brutally related - and likewise related to the slowly clarifying crisis of American democracy. Our precariat - such as the Occupy Wall-street movement - still lacks name, identity and focus, just as the European precariat is still a movement or class in the making. But Standing shows that - most importantly - the impulse is not an easily dismissed resurgence of privileged student neo-Marxism. Something fundamentally new is happening.
Anyone wanting think seriously about where we go from here, rather than scream inanities at each other in the way those in Washington DC do, will find powerful angles and levers in this fine example of how the best academic work serve the public as they seek to grapple with their anxieties. It is a book in the tradition of Hobbes and Hume, or even Paine.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Beware of banks and politicians
16 Oct 2011
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One of the best books I have read, changing my all thinking about the future of the world. It loks like the October revolution (Russia 1917) is coming again and what we currently see is just the introduction to the changes we can't predict
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