Sarah Jaffe Books
Sarah Jaffe is an American journalist and author known for her coverage of labor, social movements, and economic justice. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, and other major publications.
Known for: Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
This book explores how the modern culture of work has transformed love and passion into tools of exploitation. Sarah Jaffe investigates various professions—from teaching and care work to creative industries—revealing how the promise of meaningful labor often masks systemic inequality and burnout. Through interviews and analysis, she argues that reclaiming our time and emotional energy is essential to building a fairer society.
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Historical background
To understand how love became intertwined with labor, we must begin long before the tech startup and the open plan office. Historically, work and devotion were divided along gendered and class lines. Industrial capitalism ripped production out of the home, imposing waged labor on men while relegatin...
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Care work
Few professions embody the moral weight of love like care work. From domestic labor to elder care and childcare, this field has long been feminized and racialized, its value measured not in wages but in devotion. The modern care economy depends on a profound contradiction: society insists this labor...
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About Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is an American journalist and author known for her coverage of labor, social movements, and economic justice. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, and other major publications. She is also the author of 'Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt'.
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Sarah Jaffe is an American journalist and author known for her coverage of labor, social movements, and economic justice. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, and other major publications.
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