Guy Standing: Towards a Precariat Charter

[Die Neue Zeit]

Towards a Precariat Charter (https://books.google.ca/books?id=gSweAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover) by Guy Standing



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

For discussion.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

What's the point of this thread? No offence, but this is what the groups function is for.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to discuss? I'm not sure everyone is able or willing to discuss a whole book without some sort of guidance as to what you want to discuss...

[Die Neue Zeit]

It's not the whole book, just the chapter with those articles.