ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how precarity became political, providing examples of activist initiatives reclaiming precarity as a collective identity from which to struggle. While developing their own political vocabulary, these initiatives organized precarity pride parades to increase visibility for flexible workers. The chapter highlights the example of EuroMayDay festivities as they emerged in Italy and Spain, spreading through different cities. It also rescues the campaigns by cultural workers in France, their notion of intermittent labor and the need for a renovated charter of rights. I engage the theoretical discussion nurtured within this political momentum about immaterial labor and the cognitariat. Based on flexibility, intermittency and immateriality as new traits of labor, the chapter concludes with the efforts to update the historical notion of the commons within the knowledge economy.
