BROOKE GLADSTONE Some journalists have followed great resigned hours to read it and Quit-tok where they've been airing their dreams and their rationales. Your highlights will appear here. Musicians, high school teachers, video game developers, professional athletes, retail workers and non-profit staff all grace the pages of Jaffes book, documenting their own struggles to reconcile passion for their work with seemingly never-ending sacrifices of time or pay. Unable to add item to List. Nearly 39 million workers quit their jobs in the first 10 months of this year. There is an Amazon warehouse and a Target warehouse. Still, many of us do love our work. While frequently illuminating, chapters are layered with so many ideas and references that they occasionally feel dense, even without the coronavirus codas. Up next in this hour about work, the architecture of the office and what it tells us about the past and future of our working lives. SARAH JAFFE Right, and this is very interesting, because actually the research that sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild did that led her to come up with the concept of emotional labor was on flight attendants and it was on that very particular thing that you're talking about. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheida condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. The work-family balance that we hear so much about is often in reference to how women should spend their time outside of work. Explain that. The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Los Angeles Review of Books 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste 1521 Los Angeles, CA 90028, GENERAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES [emailprotected]EDITORIAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PRESS INQUIRIES [emailprotected]ADVERTISING INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PURCHASE INQUIRIES [emailprotected]. You're going to be making $15 an hour if you're lucky, which doesn't pay the mortgage on the house you bought $26 dollars an hour. Sarah Jaffes examination of the labour of love myth, which posits certain types of work as performed for passion instead of pay, is more relevant than ever amidst expanding narratives of friendly, progressive workplaces. You know, the paycheck? As the U.S. labor movement unravelled, people began working harder, for less. For an organisation that claims to be feminist, says Brink, to also have staff that cant afford to pay their bills or take care of their families is very hypocritical and frustrating. Jaffe explains why Brinks experience is not surprising by tracing the modern non-profit model back to its industrial capitalist roots with donations and foundations offering tax relief to the wealthy. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. BROOKE GLADSTONE Nearly 39 million workers quit their jobs in the first 10 months of this year. And they in particular can engender burnout. My own mother would end up caring for the children of middle- and upper-class families in the city suburbs, without extra pay and rarely a thank you. Zu den grten Herausforderungen, vor denen Unternehmen stehen, gehrt der Umgang mit dem Unerwarteten. And so they've laid you off six months after they've told you that you've joined the family" and it's like your family doesn't have mass layoffs once a year, you know. We no longer want to pay people an ever growing slice of the pie. , ISBN-13 who is the person that I based my video games workers chapter on. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. And they all looked at me like I had three heads. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited And I know about this company because it fired one of its workers for organizing. Jaffe demythologizes what she calls the labor of love, the current labor paradigm, in which employers insist that workers should love their jobs, even as those jobs become less stable, prestigious and remunerative. This book certainly achieved the author's desire to "crack open" this reader. Be it in the flowery WeWork motto do what you love, the grim scorn of a Fiverr ad campaign, or the insistent perkiness of recruitment messages from retailers like Target, pressures of careerism and positivity are now increasingly normal across industries and income brackets. At points, Work Wont Love You Back gestures toward a broader horizon for the working class: beyond the mere regaining of ground lost to four decades of neoliberalism, toward a renewed advance beyond it. They've laid you off six months after they've told you that you've joined the family and it's like your family doesn't have mass layoffs once a year. Every customer at the checkout counter, you have to smile at and all of that. You quote Joshua Clover in his book, saying labor is locked into the position of affirming its own exploitation under the guise of survival. Unraveling the false promise of joy amid exploitation, Jaffes book seems up to its primary task of stirring discontent among a generation of readers ripe for disillusionment. Brava to Sarah, and to all those doing the work to open more eyes and hearts. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Summary: The best of narrative nonfiction - moving personal stories plus informative history, both of which helped me better understand the world. The traditional family we know today was not the norm for much of human history, and was not created by a traditional family. It recalls the mass push against overwork during the Great Depression, with the bottom-up demand that work be shared more broadly via a thirty-hour workweek. Quitting their day jobs was all about finding happiness and focusing on mental health. And you say that was a short step to the labor of love. BROOKE GLADSTONE We get a place to live, the ability to support a family, an occasional vacation, a weekend. This not what this book is at all. , Language a book by Sarah Jaffe Work Won't Love You Back I think that nobody realizes all the sacrifices that are made by the people that work in retail. Security and a certain amount of ease in exchange for boring or dangerous work was withdrawn half a century ago, and the replacement notion that you should love work as a source of fulfillment was never in the worker's best interest because work by its very nature will never love you back. This is in contrast to other recent post-work analyses which have delt explicitly with this relationship. A new sensation has gripped the working nation. Im expected to love my students, my colleagues, my university, and my profession. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. BROOKE GLADSTONE I remember talking to a therapist who talked about something that was in the 60s called stewardess syndrome, where you had to smile, even when sleazy business people were touching you or pulling at your skirt. On this week's On the Media from WNYC. Work Won't Love You . All contain narratives about real people and changes in occupational fields over the last 150 years or more. That is to say, the deal proffered by Henry Ford. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2021. For reasons why restaurant workers are walking away. I recommend this book for people who are disillusioned with burnout. That doctors and nurses who were burned out were losing that motivation of caring about their work that they just couldn't bring themselves to care anymore. That kind of pressure, among other things, it really militate against having these conversations with your coworkers, realizing that actually, we're all in the same boat here. More than twenty five million people quit their jobs in the first seven months of this year, and it is now being called the great resignation. SARAH JAFFE Yeah. The Licit Life of Capitalism offers an intimate and eclectic portrait of the oil industrys attempt to disentangle itself from a small country on - and off - Africas Atlantic coast. The roadmap it offers is essentially one of resistance and struggle, whether at work or in the streets. On this week's On the Media from WNYC. Jaffe is clear-eyed about all the ways employers exploit workers goodwill, but because she has spent so much time reporting on labor actions across the world, she has also seen how workers use love to their advantage in organizing., is at once a brilliant contribution to the growing canon of anti-work political theory and a moving ode to human connection., Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox, Kathi Weeks, author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries, Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Jane McAlevey, author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, Greg Grandin, C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University, Molly Crabapple, artist and author of Drawing Blood and coauthor of Brothers of the Gun, Dave Zirin, author of A Peoples History of Sports in the United States, Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, has caused me to rethink my entire relationship to how I work and live. Its a defining characteristic of the American. We get a place to live, the ability to support a family, an occasional vacation, a weekend. informative 97% reflective 52% challenging 39% inspiring 35% hopeful 24% sad 5% emotional 3% dark 2% funny 1%. Blindspot The story of a community set on fireand the scars that remain 100 years later. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Atlantic, and many other publications. Seeking commonality among a broadly conceived working class, the author argues that the labor of love pressure can be felt across the pay scale. Community Reviews Summary of 630 reviews. BROOKE GLADSTONE But I admit they had been roped in by the Fordist compromise, which receded in the 70s and then we got neoliberalism or post-Fordism, or, as you say, late capitalism. I was rereading this wonderful article from again early on in the pandemic at Tribune Magazine by Polly Smyth, and she was a retail worker. BROOKE GLADSTONE Does work ever love you back? The chapter authors of Locating Value are wrestling with the disconnect between the abstract and sometimes arbitrary systems that enable exchangeable value and their material-world consequences. Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2022. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves, I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides. She moved to Sheffield to be closer to her sister, but found herself lonely and isolated. A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. Her research focuses on social studies of finance, neoliberalism, and the new social conservativisms. It is a specific moment where production is separated not into the production of services and goods, but ones that are touch-based and tech-based. We use cookies on our website. We are reminded, for example, that Adela Seally comes from a long line of freedom fighters, such as civil rights activist Dorothy Bolden. Part One (What We Might Call Love) considers domestic work, teaching, and retail while Part Two (Enjoy What You Do!) encompasses higher-status professions such as visual art, academia, and software development. Hardcover: $27.60. I didn't expect to hear it so much where I did, which was actually the video games industry. I didn't expect to hear it so much where I did, which was actually the video games industry. BROOKE GLADSTONE From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. So one of the things that's been fascinating about the strikes this year is that we've seen a lot of strikes in manufacturing, which is a place we haven't seen that many of them in recent years because workers have been too busy trying to keep those plants open. Society & Space. A world of fewer social services, fewer worker protections, jobs going offshore and workers begging for them to stay. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence. Love, Jaffe writes, was once considered potentially subversive precisely because it encouraged people to value something other than work. We must not discount the power of love now, even as we critique its misuses. Today, recognising the interdependence of our work relationships, domestic workers are forming unlikely alliances with their employers to push for better industry standards. And they in particular can engender burnout. GAVIN MUELLER I think what we have to do is listen to the complaints that people have, to the struggles they're facing and think about reshaping work along those lines rather than just assuming technology's just going to solve the question for us. It's solvable by changing these relationships. Firing your workers is very, very easy. This understanding offers a constructive basis for pleasure or purpose in socially valuable work, grounded in the same ethic of collective solidarity that capitalism thwarts, but which can persist amidst and despite the systems ongoing exploitation. That work of suppressing how you really feel when, like the creepy guy in first class puts his hand on your butt to keep smiling and be like, Can I get you a scotch, sir? NEWS CLIP More than twenty five million people quit their jobs in the first seven months of this year, and it is now being called the great resignation. Summary of Sarah Jaffe's Work Won't Love You Back - Scribd In the context of the climate and ecological crisis, those class-based demands for less work, fairly distributed, represent a useful past from which to draw. Firing your family is very, very difficult. And so you go from being able to strike, shut down production, make demands for more, like the workers at John Deere did this summer to begging your employer not to shut the factory down entirely and move it to Mexico, to Bangladesh, to Vietnam, to China. konomie als Gemengelage kultureller Praktiken, Frei, fair und lebendig - Die Macht der Commons, Labour & Care, And the piece was called How COVID turned cashiers into carers. A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. Dieses Buch ldt den Leser dazu ein, den Blick fr Commons zu strken und selber ein "Commoner" zu sein. Whether it's working for free in exchange for 'experience', enduring poor treatment in the name of being 'part of the family', or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. That doctors and nurses who were burned out were losing that motivation of caring about their work that they just couldn't bring themselves to care anymore. 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. NEWS CLIP Healthcare workers quit or retired, citing that they were just burned out by the whole thing. Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. This week and every week On the Media is a labor of love. She uncovers this seemingly benign myth of doing what you love as creating an environment of exploitation, whereby attempts to secure better working conditions, higher pay or fewer hours are dismissed as greedy. The call to work, as we've known it, has been exposed. Jaffe is clear-eyed about all the ways employers exploit workers' goodwill, but because she has spent so much time reporting on labor actions across the world, she has also seen how workers use love to their advantage in organizing." .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration. One of the things that happens when you have this incredible pressure for everything to sort of be on your individual back is that it becomes all about your individual achievement, your individual relationships with your job, your individual sort of utility, maximizing your ability to keep an eye out for the next good job and jump as soon as it comes along. American Fiasco The true story of how not to win the World Cup. But it is this thing that still has a really solid hold over our imaginations because it gave us some expectation that we would be fairly remunerated for our work. ANN HELEN-PETERSON That office, historically, it's been very good and convincing you that your life is actually the time that you spend in that office. I liked that the book showed a number of people fighting for what they thought was right whether they were artists or working at an NGO or game developers or athletes. Some journalists have followed great resigned hours to read it and Quit-tok where they've been airing their dreams and their rationales. On doctors and nurses. But this book is as much a critique of the labour-of-love ethic as it is as a blueprint for organising. But what is burnout to the factory worker who maybe never really cared that much about the drill that you lift, however many times an hour to do your part on the assembly line? One of the major strengths of Work Won't Love You Back is its commitment to tracing the relevant labor history of the professions it scrutinizes . You quoted Margaret Thatcher saying: "Whose society? In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myththe idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. of Near-Term Extinction, Using GDP to estimate the limits to growth. And so one of the reasons that I think it's a. People don't want to work because so much stimulus is going out every single day. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheida condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. What customer care and in-home workers may experience as the demand to provide service with a smile or genuine empathy, white-collar professionals will encounter in an entire discourse around jobs as a source of purpose or fulfillment. and receive personalised notifications on. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone Sarah Jaffe. [END CLIP]. And that story just, it haunts me because it's such a perfect example of of how much harder these jobs got in maybe ways that we didn't even think about. Get the Summary of Sarah Jaffe's Work Won't Love You Back in 20 minutes. Companies slashed labor costs through automation and outsourcing. SARAH JAFFE They've laid you off six months after they've told you that you've joined the family and it's like your family doesn't have mass layoffs once a year. The quitting trend can be seen as the product of a long evolution in the logic of work. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. He argued that people should get pleasure in the work itself, as well as the fruits of their labor. Using time off the hamster wheel to focus on myself and to make an impact in my community. I remember talking to a therapist who talked about something that was in the 60s called stewardess syndrome, where you had to smile, even when sleazy business people were touching you or pulling at your skirt. The quitting trend can be seen as the product of a long evolution in the logic of work. No answer on that here. Obwohl traditionelle Managementpraktiken darauf angelegt sind, unerwartete Bedrohungen zu vermeiden, machen sie die konkrete Situation hufig nur noch schlimmer. In "Work Won't Love You Back," Sarah Jaffe Kills the Dream Job Even farms are dealing with labor shortages. In it, the author takes on the fashionable ideal of work offering something like self-actualization, arguing that it functions as a new trap of economic exploitation. Jaffes argument operates from a familiar Gramscian concept of hegemony while integrating a number of more contemporary theoretical sources including works of Barbara Ehrenreich, Mark Fisher, and Silvia Federici among others. Jaffe traces this shift in attitudes toward work to the long-term trend in the US away from employment in manufacturing. Right. The office gets a makeover and sabotage at the plant. One of the things that was fascinating when I was reporting my book was I expected to hear a lot of family talk in caring workplaces, in hospitals and health care and teaching, maybe in arts institutions. Ray Malone was a late Bloomer, and only after she had her daughter did she start to understand the world through her daughters eyes. Regular or one-off donations would be greatly appreciated. BROOKE GLADSTONE So this idea of love roll back again to the 70s. Nevertheless, with the decline of classic meaning-makers such as religions, groups and communities that either provide meaning or continually create it, people [], The review below was first published in the. It tells us that it's all on us. People have always sought meaning in their lives: Its human. Sarah Jaffe is an independent journalist who has written prolifically on labor and politics. Brought into dialogue with this wider contemporary analysis, Jaffes labor of love compulsion may be understood not as a totalizing dichotomy, but as one of a myriad of factors at play in the construction of meaningful work. They remind us that new forms of work are possible if we fight for them together. That's work. The striking thing about the carrier plant actually was sort of on either side of it. Her latest book persuasively and comprehensively critiques the gig economy. BROOKE GLADSTONE Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow and author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. , ISBN-10 Review: "Work Won't Love You Back", so compromise - Reuters Love and work are things we do but rarely do they coincide. Any hope of moving past this paradigm also necessitates close critique of the organization of work itself. Este libro es interesante porque creo que pronto habr mas personas organizndose para cambiar el mundo, que mejor que sean mujeres. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited We no longer want to pay people an ever growing slice of the pie. And yet contingency has been the defining feature of my experience in academia, where Ive been precariously employed since receiving my PhD nearly a decade ago. [END CLIP]. And that and the emotional toll it took, was devastating. And even if you have a great boss and look, I've had great bosses; that doesn't take away from the pressures that every employer will face and the fact that at the end of the day, they sometimes have to make a choice that isn't the best for me because it's the best for the business. And that is just a fundamental thing that isn't solvable, necessarily, by your boss being nicer. Some older drivers resigned after worrying about being exposed to young, unvaccinated children. As service jobs eclipsed manufacturing, employment became more contingent and less remunerative. : Ashley Brink, who worked at a branch of Planned Parenthood (a reproductive justice non-profit organisation) recalls a wide-scale anti-union campaign led by her bosses. New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations [NSPPD - Facebook Almost the entire month of December, I didn't see my husband. Even subtle expectations, such as checking in on weekends, tax workers ability to relax in their free time. I chose this rating because I couldnt put this book down. Japanese stocks have received their biggest bump from an overhaul of corporate governance rules that has compelled company executives to improve shareholder returns. The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of believing science or individual carbon footprints it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. Get the Summary of Sarah Jaffe's Work Won't Love You Back in 20 minutes. NEWS CLIP It's being called the great resignation. There's no such thing. And she writes, after about 10 seconds, he let go, looked down at the floor and said, I'm very sorry. Sarah Jaffe is a rarity in the US. Sarah Jaffe Work Won't Love You Back How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone Bold Type, 2021 15 min read 7 take-aways Audio & text What's inside? This book covers a wide variety of seemingly unrelated industries, connected only by the way "love" is used to coerce workers into .
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