Translation Rights TQE / High turnover. Precarious employment of young people

The author, Laura Meradi, worked under shaky working conditions. She took up unskilled and underpaid jobs throughout a year in order to have firsthand experience of what thousands of young Argentines go through every day. She contrived a CV and never let her true intentions be known to her employers or her workmates. Almost like a spy, she worked at a hypermarket, sold credit cards on the streets of a rundown neighborhood, took up the nightshift at an English-speaking call-center, was a waitress at a top restaurant, and poured coffee at a fast-food house in downtown Buenos Aires. Alta Rotación is the chronicle of an alienating labor system, where the young have to skip from one job to another to escape their uncertain situation. Young people who enter the job market from a most disadvantageous point, but who -in spite of everything- keep struggling, don’t give up on their anger or their will to retaliate against the system in whatever small way they can, while holding on to their dreams of a better life.

Praise for Alta rotación:

“Meradi at a young 28 makes an auspicious entrance into the realm of chronicles, testimony and revenge.” Perfil

“For a whole year Meradi dived into the hard reality young people have to face in the job market. She survived and wrote a tough chronicle about the struggle to become an adult in the world of precarious work. She´s told it well: with humour and rigor”. Clarín