İn this study are examined with a holistic view the semantic worlds of employees working under precarious conditions. With study is aim to identify of own perspectives and expectations of lumpers on strategies to cope with indefinite and risky situations caused/ imposed by insecurity. This study is based on field research has been done by applying a questionnaire consisting to 301 lumpers who are employed as time- and pieceworkers in shipping jobs in the Tuzla/Istanbul Shipyards. The data obtained have been supported by the observations and informal interviews. Following findings have been achieved within the context of research findings: workers in the shipbuilding sector are experiencing precarity with its all dimensions and results such as poor working conditions, low wages, and weakening of social rights etc. deeply. The perception of job insecurity increases among shipyard workers who live impermanence and uncertainty intensively through subcontracting applications. The precarious working environment and conditions are major factors for the occurrence of labor accidents in the shipbuilding industry. Experienced insecurity has a negative impact on physical and psychological health of employees and undermining the bonds of solidarity by breaking their social lives. Low wages and uncertainty in the payments impose a perpetual living in debt on shipyard workers. Widespread precarity among employees backspaces their attitudes for union activities and prevents them from getting organized.