Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe

Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe

An "indispensable" (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.



You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."



In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth--the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries, Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. Once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow and an independent journalist who focuses on power issues in the workplace and on the streets. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the American Prospect, and a variety of other journals. She is a cohost of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast with Michelle Chen, as well as a columnist for The Progressive and New Labor Forum.

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ISBN 13	9781568589398
ISBN 10	1568589395
Title	Work Won't Love You Back
Author	Sarah Jaffe
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Year published	2021-01-26
Number of pages	432
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