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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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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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.