ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the job insecurity affects the life of parents, but also how the social life of families transform and constitute a shared reality. It is important to understand that parents in precarious employment conditions are not simply victims of the economic system and to consider the ways in which their actions constitute fundamental social links. In addressing issues around families and job insecurity, it is important to start with the Great Recession and austerity, because according to a number of studies the political and economic factors made work less secure. Exchange value is a basic capitalist mechanism that gives value to things: to goods as well as to what people do for living. Human activities are measured through the mechanism of exchange: what we do is measured and then exchanged for money. The concept of the commodification of labour reveals that the precariousness of family life is rooted within impersonal mechanism.
