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'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda ... His Politics of Time is a splendid and timely addition to this body of important work' Yanis Varoufakis 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 pioneering economist Guy Standing shows us how. The ancient Greeks organised time into five categories: work, labour, recreation, leisure and contemplation. Labour was onerous, whereas leisure was schole, and included participation in public life and lifelong education. Since the industrial revolution, our time has been shaped by capitalism, our jobs are supposed to provide all meaning in life, our time outside labour is considered simply 'time off', and politicians prioritise jobs above all other aspects of a good life. Today, we are experiencing the age of chronic uncertainty. Mental illness is on the rise, some people are experiencing more time freedom while many others are having more and more of their time stolen from them, particularly the vulnerable and those in the precariat. But there is a way forward. We can create a new politics of time, one that liberates us and helps save the planet, through strengthening real leisure and working together through commoning. We can retake control of our time, but we must do it together

"Today in one the richest countries in the world, 60% of households in poverty have people in jobs, inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years, climate change threatens our extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of precarity. The solution? Basic Income. Here, Guy Standing, the leading expert on the concept, explains how to solve the new eight evils of modern life, and all for almost zero net cost. There is a better future, one that makes certain all citizens can share in the wealth of the modern economy. Far from being a new idea, Standing shows how the roots of basic income go back to the Charter of the Forest, one of two foundational documents of the state ? the other, sealed on the same day, being the Magna Carta. All citizens have a right to the wealth created by capitalism, and all ? left or right, rich or poor ? can benefit from a dynamic and ecologically grounded economy created by the guarantee of subsistence to all."--

Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed by only a few and would rectify the recent breakdown in income distribution. Political parties across the world are now adopting this innovative policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought surrounding basic income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work, and labor; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against basic income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world; and illustrates exactly why basic income has now become such an urgent necessity

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Precariat -- The precariat stirs -- The precariat stirred -- Globalisation's child -- Defining the precariat -- Forms of labour security under industrial citizenship -- Labour, work, play and leisure -- Varieties of precariat -- Precariatisation -- The precariatised mind -- Anger, anomie, anxiety and alienation -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 2: Why the Precariat is Growing -- The Global Transformation -- The sirens of labour flexibility: Labour re-commodification -- Precarious unemployment -- The financial shock -- Dismantling the public sector -- The subsidy state: Bane of the precariat -- The shadow economy -- The decline of social mobility -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Who Enters the Precariat? -- Women: Feminisation of living? -- Youth: Urban nomads -- Old agers: Groaners and grinners -- Ethnic minorities -- The 'disabled': A concept under reconstruction? -- The criminalised: Precariat from behind bars -- Concluding points -- Chapter 4: Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes? -- The new denizens -- The precariat as a floating reserve -- From queuing to hurdles? -- Migrants as cheap labour in developing countries -- The emerging labour export regimes -- Concluding reflections -- Chapter 5: Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze -- What is work? -- The tertiary workplace -- Tertiary time -- Labour intensification -- Work-for-labour -- Tertiary skill -- Work-for-reproduction -- Youth and 'connectivity' -- The leisure squeeze -- Concluding points -- Chapter 6: A Politics of Inferno -- The panopticon society -- Making the precariat 'happy' -- The therapy state -- Workfare and conditionality -- Demonising the precariat -- Thinning democracy and neo-fascism

FC -- Half title -- From Reviews of the Precariat -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Denizens and the precariat -- 2 The austerity era -- 3 The precariat grows -- 4 Confronting the utilitarian consensus -- 5 Towards a Precariat Charter -- Article 1: Redefine work as productive and reproductive activity -- Article 2: Reform labour statistics -- Article 3: Make recruitment practices brief encounters -- Article 4: Regulate flexible labour -- Article 5: Promote associational freedom -- Articles 6–10: Reconstruct occupational communities -- Articles 11–15: Stop class-based migration policy -- Article 16: Ensure due process for all -- Article 17: Remove poverty traps and precarity traps -- Article 18: Make a bonfire of benefit assessment tests -- Article 19: Stop demonizing the disabled -- Article 20: Stop workfare now! -- Article 21: Regulate payday loans and student loans -- Article 22: Institute a right to financial knowledge and advice -- Article 23: Decommodify education -- Article 24: Make a bonfire of subsidies -- Article 25: Move towards a universal basic income -- Article 26: Share capital via sovereign wealth funds -- Article 27: Revive the commons -- Article 28: Revive deliberative democracy -- Article 29: Re-marginalize charities -- 6 There is a future -- Bibliography -- Index

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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 Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a more stable labour identity. His concept and his conclusions have been widely taken up by thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Zygmunt Bauman, by political activists and by policy-makers. This new book takes the debate a stage further, looking in more detail at the kind of progressive politics that might form the vision of a Good Society in which such inequality, and the instability it produces, is reduced. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights - political, civil, social and economic - have been denied to the Precariat, and argues for the importance of redefining our social contract around notions of associational freedom, agency and the commons.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in society. Although it would be wrong to characterise members of the Precariat as victims, many are frustrated and angry. The Precariat is dangerous because it is internally divided, leading to the villainisation of migrants and other vulnerable groups. Lacking agency, its members may be susceptible to the siren calls of political extremism. To prevent a 'politics of inferno', Guy Standing argues for a 'politics of paradise', in which redistribution and income security are reconfi gured in a new kind of Good Society, and in which the fears and aspirations of the Precariat are made central to a progressive strategy.