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
