{"id":3797,"date":"2015-10-31T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2015-10-31T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T20:14:25","slug":"bc-labour-heritage-centre-and-simon-fraser-university-labour-studies-dr-guy-standing-free-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"BC Labour Heritage Centre and Simon Fraser University Labour Studies &#8211; Dr. Guy Standing &#8212; Free Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr. Guy Standing &#8212; Free Public Lecture<\/span> <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">On <b><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_330156629\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Tuesday, November 17, 2015<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b> the BC Labour Heritage Centre and Simon Fraser University Labour Studies are hosting a free public lecture with Dr Guy Standing, a renowned British professor at the University of London.\u00a0 This event is being held in conjunction with the BC Federation of Labour Renewal Conference in Vancouver.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Dr Standing has developed the theory of the \u201cprecariat\u201d, a term we will be hearing more frequently in coming months.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Standing calls on politicians to make ambitious social reforms towards ensuring financial security as a right. He argues for an unconditional basic income as an important step to a new approach. If politicians fail to take the necessary decisions, he predicts a wave of anger and violence, and the rise of far-right politics.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">We hope you will be able to attend this important presentation.\u00a0 A poster is attached.\u00a0 We would also be grateful if you could circulate it among your staff and officers who will be in Vancouver at that time.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/standing-poster_1.pdf\">https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/standing-poster_1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Guy Standing &#8212; Free Public Lecture On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 the BC Labour Heritage Centre and Simon Fraser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}