When the movie reviews recently surfaced in Madrid for Spider-Man 2, the young superhero’s mundane day job in a pizza joint was dismissively defined with Spain’s harsh local slang for temporary work, “contrato basura”.
That means literally a “garbage contract”, the term for the temporary contracts that more than a third of Spain’s workforce now hold, second only to South Korea among the 30 industrialised countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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