Whitehall Group Lunch – Professor Guy Standing FacSS, SOAS University of London ‘The Politics of Time: The Precariat in the Trump Era’
Whitehall Group members and guests welcomed Professor Guy Standing FacSS, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London as their guest speaker during lunch on Wednesday, 15th January, 2025 (12.30 – 2.30pm). Professor Standing discussed the The Politics of Time: The Precariat in the Trump Era.
Whitehall Group lunch – Wednesday, 15th January, 2025
Speaker: Professor Guy Standing FAcSS, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London
Subject: The Politics of Time: The Precariat in the Trump Era.
Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the University of Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He is currently working on pilot basic income schemes in India and on issues relating to his two recent books, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014).