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

a book by Sarah Jaffe
Event • New York

Black Against Amazon: a Belabored and Black Work Talk Crossover

Just a few days after voting closes, historian Robin D. G. Kelley will join Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, co-hosts of Dissent’s Belabored podcast, and Steven Pitts, host of the Black Work Talk podcast on Organizing Upgrade, to discuss the effort, its import, and what it has to say about the state of the Black working class today.

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Work Won’t Love You Back on The Dig with Daniel Denvir

In an attempt to keep my title as Dan’s most-frequent guest on The Dig, we spent close to two hours talking about Work Won’t Love You Back, producerism, gendered labor, teaching, retail, and so much more.

Event • London

Work Won’t Love You Back on A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

‘It’s a core part of the way neoliberalism functions – telling us that everything is our choice, and therefore, that everything is our fault.’

I joined Grace Blakeley on Tribune magazine’s A World to Win podcast this week. 

Event • New York

Reinventing Solidarity: Work Won’t Love You Back with Ruth Milkman

I’m joining the Reinventing Solidarity podcast of the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies to talk with the brilliant Ruth Milkman, whose writings on labor have helped shape my understanding of work for many years now. Join us! 

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Sarah Jaffe on Why Doing What You Love May Backfire On Yo‪u‬ on Keen On

On today’s episode, Andrew Keen talks with Sarah Jaffe about her new book, Work Won’t Love You Back, and what love means in the twenty-first century.

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Sarah Jaffe, Author of Work Won’t Love You Back & Co-Host of Belabored Podcast – LRPN Spotlight

I spoke with Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab for this spotlight from the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Work Won’t Love You Back on Season of the Bitch

do u love ur job??? RLY?! ……….????? Well guess what, as kellen says, she’s just not that into you (she meaning the hellscape that is labor under capitalism). this week we have our incredible friend, labor journalist, and author, Sarah Jaffe on the pod to talk about her new book Work Wont Love you Back. […]

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Love and Class War on Delete Your Account

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by independent labor journalist Sarah Jaffe, reporting fellow at Type Media Center, cohost of Dissent Magazine’s Belabored podcast, and the author of two books: Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and a new book out now from Hurst and Bold Type Books, Work Won’t Love You […]

Event • London

I Am Not My Work at Novara FM

There are two people by whom I’ve been excited to be interviewed about Work Won’t Love You Back since I was writing the damn thing. One of them is James Butler at Novara FM, and it’s up. 

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Art and Labor Podcast Episode 110 – Work Won’t Love You Back w/ Sarah Jaffe

I joined the Art and Labor podcast folks–who helped me think through writing about art when I was working on the book–to talk about it!