Precarity has come to name an existential, financial, and social insecurity exacerbated by the flexibilization of labor markets. There is widespread agreement that the cultural and creative industries have been one of the economic sectors most severely affected by precarity, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than just instigating precarity, the pandemic “has helped amplify some long-instituted feelings of precariousness” (Banks 2020, 650). In this course, students will get acquainted mostly with the situation from the last 10 to 15 years, in the so called former West, but also with other genealogies of precarity in the cultural economy. The goal is to show how this concept highlights labor conditions that are denied in dominant discourses on the creative economy, but also signals a promising laboratory of a recomposition of labor politics in which creative and cultural economy workers are participants.