From a gender historical perspective, labour precarity constitutes a long-term phenomenon. Women's work represents a privileged observatory to understand how instability and precarity also characterised the cycle of economic and industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. The article compares the conditions of female factory workers with those of home-based workers, a traditionally invisible category of workers, who between the 1960s and 1970s promoted demonstrations and protests with the support of trade unions, women's associations and local institutions. Changes in the subjectivity of women workers and homeworkers, whose demands often came together and gave rise to joint protests, not only became part of broader discussions on the relationship between industrial crisis and precariousness, but also generated discourses on specific forms of work that are now central to debates on flexible/precarious work such as part-time work.

从性别历史角度看，劳动力不稳定是一个长期现象。妇女的工作是了解不稳定和不稳定如何成为 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代经济和工业扩张周期特征的重要观察站。文章将工厂女工的状况与家庭工人的状况进行了比较，后者是传统上看不见的工人类别，在 20 世纪 60 年代至 1970 年代期间，她们在工会、妇女协会和地方机构的支持下推动示威和抗议活动。女工和家庭工人的主体性变化，她们的诉求经常聚集在一起并引起联合抗议，不仅成为关于工业危机和不稳定之间关系的更广泛讨论的一部分，而且还引发了关于现在正在发生的特定工作形式的讨论。关于兼职工作等灵活/不稳定工作的辩论的核心。