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The words “precarity” and “precarious workers” have been the subject of semantic conflicts within the “radical left.” This article studies the contemporary uses of these two words in order to identify their political and discursive stakes. By exploring counter-definitions of the notion of precarity and then discussing practices of counter-sociotyping associated with collective self-designation as “precarious,” it firstly demonstrates how the issue of the construction of a political identity is at stake in the fights led against social norms and in particular those of the wage labor system—either in general or in its discontinuous or “flexible” form. Lastly, by analyzing a debate on the “pride” some actors take in being precarious—centered around the distinction between precarity suffered and precarity chosen—it offers a discursive analysis of the “ambivalence” that political sociology has described as characteristic of this notion.