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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
By Jaffe, Sarah
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- 9781568589398
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- Bold Type Books
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Starred Review on February 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
In this latest work, journalist Jaffe (Necessary Trouble) offers a searing indictment of the way employers leverage the language of love to undermine workers' ability to organize for better working conditions. Focusing on the carework and creative sectors broadly construed, Jaffe explores how, over the last half century, workers have fought for more authenticity in the workplace only to be faced with "demands to love their jobs," often at the expense...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
