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This book introduces the Precariat - the growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, doing work without a past or future. Guy Standing examines why the Precariat is growing, what fears it faces, what political dangers it represents and what might be done politically to ease the situation.

Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He has previously been Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath, UK, Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University, Australia and Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization. He is co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network. His recent books include Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (2009) and Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality (2002).