Precarious, precarity, precariat. These words trace a journey from the adjective meaning insecure and vulnerable, through a society in which such conditions are generalised, to a collective noun ...

To arrest the drift to social engineering, the voice of those subject to the steering should be inside the institutions responsible for social policy. This means more than putting token ‘community ...

The precariat, a class-in-the-making, is the first mass class in history that has systematically been losing rights built up for citizens. So, why is it the new dangerous class and how is it ...

I finished Guy Standing's The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class thinking that the parts were rather more than the whole. There's lots of fascinating statistics, facts and anecdotes, and the idea of ...

What unites the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators with youths who dressed as cartoon characters, entered a Hamburg gourmet supermarket, filled their trolleys with luxury goods, gave a rose to the check ...

On the history of the US economy in decline. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By Dr. Guy Standing, professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies and author ...

This week we published a list of 9 global buzzwords that will likely be in the headlines of 2023. Some definitely sound new(ish) — like polycrisis, referring to the overlapping crises that the world ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. A new PBS series, Future of Work, coming this September, sheds ...