The people who make up society have always strived to protect themselves from events that threaten their future and put them under the stress of poverty and socioeconomic difficulties. People have developed various protection methods against those uncertainties. However, insecurity has always been a significant problem for humanity. In this respect, insecure means unsafe, uncertain, difficult, and delicate. From a political perspective, it represents living and working conditions without any security, such as the residence permit of migrants and refugees, or living without any security as a single mother. The concept of insecurity began to be used in relation to work life more often since the beginning of the 1980s. Insecure work represents various kinds of unsafe insecure flexible exploitation (i.e., informal, seasonal, and temporary ...

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