Labor precariousness and the worker’s overthrow process

Abstract

Current global changes foster a new paradigm in labor relationships, such as precarious forms of work and employment, which have been perceived, from the proliferation of new contract modalities and the decline of typical/permanent employment, as one of the most visible consequences of labor market flexibility. This article aims to present the characterizing aspects of work precariousness and its consequences for the worker. In short terms, precariousness is a phenomenon that runs through the dynamic movement of work and employment structuring, as it concerns not only to unemployment growth and the expansion of the reserve register but also to the specificities of the jobs available in the labor market, emphasized by the instability and contractual ephemerality. It leads to an increasing number of workers who are alienated from their rights and subjected to unstable, unsatisfactory and potentially ill conditions of labor.