Sarah Jaffe
All Books By Sarah Jaffe
Necessary Trouble
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 23, 2016
- Language: English
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4.08(370 ratings)
The 2008 financial crisis crystallized for people around the country the fact that something was wrong. Americans had already been losing faith in elites who had failed to protect them from crisis after crisis and disaster after disaster. After the collapse, we expected someone to have a solution but were inevitably disappointed. Instead, we got high and rising unemployment, foreclosures spiraling out of control, and, as the protest chant went, “banks got bailed out, we got sold out.”
The spark was slow to start, but it has grown since. Tea Partiers challenged conservative politicians to keep their promises; Walmart and fast-food workers went on strike for a raise; Wall Street found itself Occupied; the deaths of unarmed young men touched off a twenty-first-century black freedom struggle. The movements swelled, intersected, and spread around the country, helped along by social media. At their core, they were all challenges to who wields power in the US, regardless of political allegiance.
Necessary Trouble offers listeners an understanding of today’s new radicals-the troublemakers of all stripes who refuse to sit any longer on the sidelines and wait for things to improve.
Work Won’t Love You Back
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrator: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 26, 2021
- Language: English
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4.02(2993 ratings)
You’re told that if you “do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Whether it’s working for “exposure” and “experience,” or enduring poor treatment in the name of “being part of the family,” all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love.
In Work Won’t Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this “labor of love” myth–the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries–from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete–Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work.
As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.