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Guy Standing

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Guy Standing

British economist and founding member of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Author of “The Precariat” and leading global voice for UBI. Featured speaker at Floyd’s CommonWealth Speaker Series (March 2024).

State

Professor, SOAS University of London. Co-founder of Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Global ambassador for UBI advocacy. [Source: Public record; Google Calendar, 2024]

What They Believe

  • The “precariat” is a new dangerous class — people living lives of instability with no guaranteed income or security
  • UBI is the essential policy response to the precariat’s condition
  • Digitalization and automation are creating mass precarity that existing welfare states cannot address
  • UBI should be universal, unconditional, and adequate

Key Works

  • “The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class” (2011) — introduced “precariat” as a concept
  • “A Precariat Charter” (2014)
  • “Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen” (2017)
  • BIEN co-founder (Basic Income Earth Network) — global UBI advocacy organization

Relationship to Floyd’s Work

Featured speaker at CommonWealth Speaker Series in March 2024. Floyd + UBI Works team (Ben Earle, Ken Yang, others) organized and attended. Standing’s academic credibility and global profile helps legitimize the UBI Works policy agenda in Canada. [Source: Google Calendar, “Common Wealth Speaker Series: Guy Standing”, March 26, 2024]

Network

  • BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) — co-founder
  • evelyn-forget — fellow UBI academic researcher
  • CommonWealth / ubi-works — speaking relationship

Timeline

  • 2024-03-26 | CommonWealth Speaker Series: Guy Standing [Source: Google Calendar]
  • 2017 | “Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen” published
  • 2011 | “The Precariat” published — landmark concept
  • 1986 | Co-founded BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network)

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