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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Jaffe, Sarah

Paperback

LaborPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1568589379
ISBN13: 9781568589374
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: Jan 18 2022
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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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