Essayist Sarah Jaffe (Norwood, Massachusetts, 44 years old) knows the world of work and all its variants from top to bottom. She has been a waitress, repaired bicycles and has been a social media consultant; she has sold ice cream, cleaned and explained Soviet communism to high school students. Her book ‘Trabajar. Un amor no correspondido’ (Capitan Swing publishing house) is a slap in the face that opens our eyes to fictions such as love for the profession or myths such as that of the ‘white working class’. The working class is a concept that evolves, and today takes the form of immigrant carers who are exploited in the dependency assistance sector.

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