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A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens by Guy Standing
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occup ...Show more
Basic Income : And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it...Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason 'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough survey he explains how it works and why it has the ...Show more
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and ...Show more
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Books
The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The situation is dire: rampa ...Show more
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
26.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
An expose of the plunder of the world's oceans, and the devastating economic and environmental impact this is having across the globeThe sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the worl ...Show more
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Guy Standing reveals the devastating effects of the construction of a global market economy. At the heart of the problem is the construction by successive governments, working in the interests of elites, of the most unfree market system ever created. A system in which property, financial, physical and i ...Show more
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing
55.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The renowned radical economist Guy Standing turns his attention to our time, and how to reclaim it Time has always been political. Throughout history, how we use our time has been defined and controlled by the powerful, and today is no exception. But we can reclaim control, and in this book, the pioneer ...Show more
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION by Guy Standing
29.99 AUD
Category: History
This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at th ...Show more
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