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Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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98/100Author:
Sarah Jaffe
Publisher:
Bold Type Books
Date:
January 26, 2021
A preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements examines the 'labor of love' myth--the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay.
What The Reviewers Say
... illuminating and inspiring.
The author offers no solutions to the problems she describes, although clearly, in her view, capitalism is not the ideal system for encouraging worker satisfaction. Instead, rather abruptly, she concludes what’s needed is a world that allows us to 'value the relationships we have with others.' To create such a world, we must free love from work.
... if an employer uses the language of love to stifle its employees’ fight for labor justice, then does that employer genuinely love its employees? Sarah Jaffe’s new book...has an answer to this question and it’s a sobering one that all workers need to hear.
... a searing indictment of the way employers leverage the language of love to undermine workers’ ability to organize for better working conditions.
