by Barbara Ehrenreich · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447339860
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Por cuatro duros» is the social essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (239 pages, in Spanish).
Barbara Ehrenreich enters the US labor market and narrates in the first person her time in poorly paid jobs: waitress, cleaner and shop assistant. Through that experience, she gives a voice to women who survive on the worst wages and documents precarity, poverty and working conditions in the United States.
Translation by Carmen Aguilar. The original work, 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America', was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the ALA Alex Award.
Aimed at readers interested in social essays and in studies on poverty, work and inequality in the United States.
Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
