Work won't love you back how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted, and alone

"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...

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Main Author: Jaffe, Sarah, 1980- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Bold Type Books, 2022.
Edition: First trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Welcome to the working week
  • What we might call love.
  • Nuclear fallout: the family
  • Just like one of the family: domestic work
  • We strike because we care: teaching
  • Service with a smile: retail
  • Suffer for the cause: nonprofits
  • Enjoy what you do!
  • My studio is the world: art
  • Hoping for work: interns
  • Proletarian professions: academia
  • Playbor of love: technology
  • It's all fun and games: sports
  • Conclusion: What is love?