In the last century, Mexico witnessed a population rise in the northern border region which was largely connected to the availability of maquiladoras employment. The conditions of employment have been deplorable which impacts on the dwellers in the city into precarity. In the understanding of precarity, the paper defines the subject within the context of two positions, one from the epistemological and the class structure positions. This paper addresses what precarity means within the context of those living in the colonia Mexico 68, having considered the conditions of employment, either informal or formal work. The spatial identification of precarityin colonia Mexico 68, an irregular settlement to the west of the city was identified where the state of living based on the ethnographic findings underlying it within the subjective philosophical submission of Luckman and Berger, through random sampling of respondents across gender, age, formal and informal work disposition. Subjective philosophical positon of Berger Peter and Luckmann (1966) suggests that individual experiences explain inhabitants’ lived realities. It was observed that the condition of precarity was largely pertinent with similar experiences amongst respondents, the habitat and work environment. It is of note that to curb the problem of precarity questions of the embodied state of those submerged in it must be uplifted beyond just safety-nets but inclusion through social trust disposition.
