Work Won't Love You Back
how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted and alone
$29.70
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2022
Summary
Work Won’t Love You Back: Unmasking the Labor of Love Myth
Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy.
Work Won’t Love You Back examines how we all bought into this ‘labor of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787386822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787386821 |
| Author: | Sarah Jaffe |
| Publisher: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 198mm x 132mm |
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Critics Review
‘Sarah Jaffe is a rarity in the US. Not only is she one of the few journalists still reporting on the labour movement, but she sits on an even shorter list of writers intent on covering the everyday stories of working people through a lens of dignity and empowerment. […] Work Won’t Love You Back is ambitious in breadth [while] also reach[ing] for impressive theoretical depth.’
About The Author
Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. The author of Necessary Trouble, she has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation and many other outlets. She tweets as @sarahljaffe.
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