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. […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was part of an exhibit at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark on “The Irreplaceable Human,” looking at the conditions of life and work during the age of “artificial intelligence.” The exhibition is up from November 23, 2023 to April 1, 2024. With works by more than 60 artists, this large-scale, interdisciplinary exhibition […]
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.
I’m one of several voices explaining the care crisis–in Britain and internationally–and what we can do about it in this video series from Open Democracy.
Event • Boston
“The Labor of Love and the Future of Work” Sarah Jaffe
I spoke to UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Center on the future of work: