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How inhabitants of underdeveloped countries (like me) with very high unemployment rates, do we get any dignity at work, since there are people everywhere accepting anything for any money?

Currently I work in a neighborhood supermarket as a administrative assistant. However for some time now I started to replace another role in which the employee was fired, and things was going fine, but the but the owner of the place (an elderly man who clearly no longer understands his own business) started pushing me to work that is not my job, constantly demanding and even making public complaints to other employees and even customers (all this for a minimum wage, which here in Brazil means nothing). I would like to change jobs, but in this country we have a high unemployment rate and many people accept to work for minimum conditions and even below, and I depend on money to help my family. I would like to raise the discussion of how people from underdeveloped countries and with high unemployment can fight for more dignified working conditions and a…


Currently I work in a neighborhood supermarket as a administrative assistant. However for some time now I started to replace another role in which the employee was fired, and things was going fine, but the but the owner of the place (an elderly man who clearly no longer understands his own business) started pushing me to work that is not my job, constantly demanding and even making public complaints to other employees and even customers (all this for a minimum wage, which here in Brazil means nothing). I would like to change jobs, but in this country we have a high unemployment rate and many people accept to work for minimum conditions and even below, and I depend on money to help my family. I would like to raise the discussion of how people from underdeveloped countries and with high unemployment can fight for more dignified working conditions and a decent salary, fleeing this moralistic discourse of meritocracy and “decent work”

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