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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Why We Have to Stop Expecting Work to Love Us Back, and How to Grieve What We Thought It Would Be Like, on Hard at Work Podcast

What if the heaviness you feel at work isn’t a personal failing — but capitalism doing what capitalism does? I joined host Ellen Whitlock Baker on the Hard at Work podcast for a wide-ranging, deeply grounding conversation about why so many of us feel exhausted, disillusioned, and even heartbroken by our jobs. Together, we explore how “do what you love” culture, hustle narratives, and nonprofit martyrdom have trained us to expect meaning, identity, and emotional fulfillment from work — and how devastating it can be when those promises inevitably fall apart.

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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.

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Macrodose: Robots and Foucault: the economics of work

I was a guest on the Macrodose podcast, for a long and rambling (and quite fun) conversation with James Meadway on the state of work, which robots we should (and shouldn’t) be afraid of, and why it’s always about power.

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The Ankler: Myth of the Hollywood Dream Job

Elaine Low at The Ankler interviewed me about the Hollywood strikes and the way the myth of the dream job is utilized on all sides of the struggle.

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Soft Life: Work at Somerset House

I was interviewed for Somerset House Podcast’s series on “Soft Life,” on work, hustle culture, and how we can imagine new ways of living.

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Off-Kilter Podcast: “Work Won’t Love You Back”

I joined Rebecca Vallas on the Off-Kilter Podcast to talk about Work Won’t Love You Back, and in particular to talk about nonprofit sector work and burnout.

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55 Voices for Democracy Podcast: Sarah Jaffe on Working Conditions & Labor Movements

I was a guest on the 55 Voices for Democracy Podcast. 

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Great Resignation or Great Revolution? Angela Glover Blackwell in conversation with Sarah Jaffe and Saru Jayaraman

I was on the Radical Imagination podcast with Angela Glover Blackwell.