Citizens vs. denizens / "the precariat"

This is from an email I am working on to my local MPs. The concept has clearly been around for a while, although I have only recently come across it, and found it interesting enough to share here.

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I have come across the work of Guy Standing, in particular on being a citizen vs. being a denizen / member of the "precariat" (those people in society who are vulnerable, insecure, and may not face any improvement in their life - workers in the gig economy, for instance [Wikipedia article here]).

Guy Standing

• website is at https://www.guystanding.com/, and describes him as "Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all";
  
• most recent book is "A Precariat Charter - From Denizens to Citizens", available on a chapter by chapter basis free of charge at https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/a-precariat-charter-from-denizens-to-citizens/ (he compares his idea of a "precariat charter" to the Magna Carta and the Forest Charter) ;
  
• other books available at https://smile.amazon.com/Guy-Standing/e/B001JXANZE/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1;
  
• I first encountered this person through a Fabians video on UBI at https://youtu.be/T2mH429rre0, and thence to https://youtu.be/nnYhZCUYOxs (on the precariat).