precarias

Precarias is the feminine plural form of the Spanish adjective precario, used to describe people or things that are precarious or in a precarious situation. In everyday language, precarias can refer to individuals facing uncertain living or working conditions.

In social and political discourse, precarias often describes women who experience precarious employment, low wages, flexible or informal labor, and lack of social protections. The term highlights the gendered dimension of labor insecurity, including care work, domestic labor, and migrant work.

A notable use of the term is by the feminist collective Precarias a la deriva, based in Spain since the late 1990s, which uses precarias to frame analyses of precarity and gender. They have produced zines, publications, and events to discuss employment insecurity, migration, and reproductive labor.

In scholarly and cultural contexts, precarias appears in research on labor markets, gender, and migration, and in artistic productions that critique neoliberal labor regimes.

Related terms and concepts include precarity, precarious work, feminist theory, social reproduction, and labor activism.