Guy Standing

2006 Carol Hoffmann Collins Global Scholar-in-Residence
October 16-20, 2006  

Dr. Standing's Visit to MHC

• Public Lecture: "Work and Labor: The Global Transformation" [listen to the talk on audio]
  October 18th, 2006; 7:30 pm, Gamble Auditorium, Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College
• Labor Expert Spends Week at MHC

Dr. Guy Standing

• World-renowned expert on the working conditions, labor markets, and social protection policies in developed and developing countries
• Former Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization, based in Geneva (1999-2006).
• Currently professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath, England.
• Dr. Standing was a member of Bruno Kreisky's Commission on European Employment, a consultant to the U.S. President's Commission on Unemployment Statistics and to many governments and international bodies, including the World Bank, the UNDP, the European Commission, and the UN High Commission on Human Rights.
• Most recent book: Economic Security for a Better World (Geneva, ILO, 2004). Coordinating writer and editor with Programme staff. Revised edition, August 2005; in English/French.