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

a book by Sarah Jaffe
Event • Ferrara, Italy

Internazionale Festival 2023

I will be at Internazionale Magazine Festival in Ferrara in September. It is said that work gives dignity and defines us. But couldn’t it be that they pushed us to believe this in order to make better use of ourselves? How to regain time for ourselves and our lives Francesca Coin sociologist Dialogue with  Sarah Jaffe American […]

Event

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.

Event

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

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

Event • Modena, Italy

Work Won’t Love You Back at Dig Festival Modena

I was a guest at the Dig journalism festival in Modena, Italy.

Event

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. 

Event • Bologna

Work Won’t Love You Back at Bologna Attiva

I’ll be presenting Work Won’t Love You Back in Bologna, Thursday 6 October 2022.

Joining me will be Isabella Conti, mayor of San Lazzaro di Savena. 

Event • Milan

Wired Next Fest Milan

I’m appearing at Wired Italia Next Festival in Milan on October 8.   They call it the great resignation, the abandonment of jobs considered too stressful or not sufficiently paid that we are witnessing in this post-pandemic phase. The Covid-19, however, was only the detonator of a model, the neoliberal one, which had long since entered […]

Event

Work Won’t Love You Back on Fast Track with Margie Hartley

I was a guest on Margie Hartley’s podcast Fast Track to discuss Work Won’t Love You Back.

Event

Rethinking Economics India talk

A conversation with Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Wont Love You Back: How Devotion to our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. The event examines the ‘labor of love’ myth – the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay.

Event • Australia

Why Work Won’t Love You Back: The Trap Of The Labour Of Love on The DNA of Purpose podcast

I was a guest on the DNA of Purpose podcast.