How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

a book by Sarah Jaffe
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Podcast: Mourning, Mobilizing, and New Forms of Labor Resistance

I joined Henri Sulku at Turning Point Magazine to talk work in all its permutations: Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles. […]

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New Books in Politics and Polemics: From the Ashes

I joined Tom Discenna of the New Books Network again, this time to talk about From the Ashes. 

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New Books in Education: Work Won’t Love You Back

I was on the New Books Network to talk about my decidedly un-new book, Work Won’t Love You Back, with Kelly Knight and Tom Discenna.

Event • Leith, Scotland

Scotonomics Festival

I’ll be in Leith for the Scotonomics festival March 19-21! You can buy tickets to the whole weekend or individual events; if you’re in the area do come through!

Event • Bristol, England

People Just Do Something – Love in the time of fascism

How do we love, organise, and look after each other under capitalism, crisis, and creeping fascism? Priyanka and Isaac sit down with Sarah Jaffe — industrial correspondent and author of Work Won’t Love You Back — to ask exactly that. She knows labour, love, and the labour of love.

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ICE, resistance, and ‘capitalism without humans’ w/ Sarah Jaffe

On January 7th, Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year old prize winning poet and mother of three was murdered in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross. I joined Alex Doherty at Politics Theory Other to talk about the political background to the current situation in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.

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A Conversation on Work and Intimacy with Sarah Mosseri

Employers love to talk about trust, teamwork, and “being a family.” In reality, that language keeps workers compliant and overextended.
I’m joining sociologist Sarah Mosseri to discuss discuss how emotional cultures at work mask exploitation.

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How To Be A Better Human: Stop Devoting Yourself To Your Job

I got personal with Chris Duffy on the TED How to Be a Better Human podcast. I thought Chris did an excellent job weaving together a conversation about Work Won’t Love You Back and From the Ashes—it helped me, honestly, to see the connecting threads between these works and in fact all of my work.

Event • Online

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

I’m hosting a discussion of how to maintain hope in the face of despair, with Hannah Proctor.

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MACRODOSE ROUNDTABLE: Anarcho-Capitalism and the Future of Money

I guest hosted the economics podcast Macrodose, hosted by James Meadway. I was joined by two thinkers, Brett Scott and Quinn Slobodian, whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and its discontents, cryptocurrency, conspiracy theories have overlapping and fascinating insights for how we see the political world today.