ABSTRACT
Originally used by French sociologists, precariousness most global definition concerns the objective and subjective features of uncertainty and insecurity that operate as an instrument used by employers to shift risks and responsibilities onto workers in the formal or informal economy. Precarious employment takes a variety of forms essentially re-regulating the relationship between labour and capital to the advantage of the latter. This chapter addresses, in ethnographic terms, the ways in which ex-workers from a TV channel tried to cope with precarious employment conditions, how they conceived of their involvement in the struggles resisting management's power, how they tried to make a living, and the quality of social relations that emerged from these conditions. It must be noted that precariousness in the media sector first appeared in Greece during the crisis and in this particular station; afterwards, it spread to other media, such as newspapers, culminating in the notorious dismissal of employees of the public broadcast company ERT.
