Work in cuba

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“Work” in Cuba Means Working for the State

November 13, 2017 |

By Ernesto Perez Castillo  (Progreso Semanal)

 

HAVANA TIMES — No matter how much it hurts us, we have no choice: surviving day by day and, better yet, getting to the end of the month and year in most cases and for the majority of human beings, inevitably passes through something called “work”.

This “work” business has so many implications here in Cuba and there are so many ways of looking at it which are the same in number as any sea urchin’s razor-sharp spikes. Working implies, among other things, that there is payment for the work being done. And this payment, at times, doesn’t even classify as such.

Seventeen years after the turn of the millennium, and a little more since the Cuban economy, which was already not going very well, plunged definitively in the ‘90s, talking about salaries in Cuba is still a euphemism. The generation that is now reaching fifty, who began their working lives at the beginning of this crisis, are proof of this.

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