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Work Won't Love You Back
- Author
- Sarah Jaffe
- Narrator
- Sarah Jaffe
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 26 January 2021
- Run Time
- 12 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
An 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.
“Illuminating and inspiring." —New Republic
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.
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Jaffe
- Narrator
- Sarah Jaffe
- Duration
- 12 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 January 2021
- ISBN
- 9781549187407
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Social classes, Social and cultural history, Labour / income economics, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Working patterns and practices
Synopsis
An 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.“Illuminating and inspiring." —New Republic 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.
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