ILPC 2026

 The studies on precariousness have reached enough breadth in the actuality of the social sciences. Its wide density and presence in the scientific publications, investigations, congresses, etc., has found its echo in the studies of work. This situation opens up questions about the definitions and peculiarities of precariousness, as a concept and relation, for the investigation, understanding and analysis of the Latin American reality. Considering that this debate originated mainly in European countries such as France and Germany, and followed in diverse countries around the world (US, South Africa, Brazil, China, etc.), it is necessary to problematize their relevance to contexts and social configurations where the dynamics of protection and social welfare have not been historical guarantees of state policy, or nor are they associated with processes of industrialization and "early modernities". Taking into account the diversity of their approaches, such as their geographic and thematic contexts of references, I will present a typology of precarious work in Chile, using the data of Socio-economic Characterization Survey (CASEN, 2015). We present 10 groups of workers, characterized by the definition of 5 dimensions (Working conditions, temporality, instability, insufficiency and insecurity), like a results of the second year on our Project “Mapping Precarious Work(s) and labour relations Macro-Southern Area of Chile”. This project is supported by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONICYT) and is part of the program of regular research in social sciences. In these results is possible understand the labor precarity multiplicity and heterogeneity in the Chilean world of work, considering three regions from the South from Chile: Maule, Biobío y Araucanía. This approach is based in the complexity of labor precarity for understand social class, race and gender in Latin America like different manifestation of power and domination regimes. Through this distinction the project shows a complicated definition of “social class”, which refers to a critical view of the classical models based on occupation and wages. I argue than the precarity and precariousness are determinant relations of the social structure, and are important input for understand the new forms of social classes in the contemporary capitalism. Finally we generate some conclusions for the empirical study of labor precariousness in the current contexts of neoliberalism, globalization and diversification of the forms of work.