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 joined Tom Discenna of the New Books Network again, this time to talk about From the Ashes.
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.
Event • Leith, Scotland
Scotonomics Festival
I’ll be in Leith for the Scotonomics festival March 19-21! You can buy tickets to the whole weekend or individual events; if you’re in the area do come through!
Event • Bristol, England
People Just Do Something – Love in the time of fascism
How do we love, organise, and look after each other under capitalism, crisis, and creeping fascism? Priyanka and Isaac sit down with Sarah Jaffe — industrial correspondent and author of Work Won’t Love You Back — to ask exactly that. She knows labour, love, and the labour of love.
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.
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.
Event • Online
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.