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Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center reporting fellow and an independent journalist covering Labor, economic justice, and gender. 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. She is the cohost, mostra altro with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast, and the author of one prior book, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, which Robin D.G. Kelley called "the most compelling social and political portrait of our age." mostra meno

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The Rising of the Women (1980) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni52 copie

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This book has many good solid examples of workers who are exploited for their love for their work, but basically the title says it all: work (and employers) doesn’t love you back. The author has good examples and narratives, and good histories of each industry, but is kind of all over the place with her main premise. I didn’t get much out of the conclusion.

My takeaways:
- It’s no question that all people should be paid adequately for their work based on their value and contributions to the employer. However, employers will use your passion or sense of calling to get away with paying you less whenever they can get away with it.
- The myth of labor-of-love is cracking under its own weight because work itself no longer works. Neoliberalism/ late-stage capitalism is counterproductive to human development and well-being of humanity.
- Autonomy (UK), 2019 report (on climate change): “... provided current levels of carbon intensity of our economies and current levels of productivity, how much work can we afford.”
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mimo | 6 altre recensioni | Dec 18, 2023 |
The introduction was good, but then the first chapter went off on tangents that I couldn’t see the point of, and I didn’t fancy trying to wade my way through an entire book of that.
 
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rabbitprincess | 6 altre recensioni | May 7, 2023 |
Fuck you, pay me. Saved you time reading this trash.
 
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Paul_S | 6 altre recensioni | Apr 8, 2022 |
Audiobooks that clock in at 13 hours usually signal that I will start to disengage at some point, but that never happened here. I really appreciated the way Jaffe pulled about as many sectors of contemporary Western economy as she did to look at the ways capitalism has distorted our notions of work and exploited us. Oof. Happy Monday...
 
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LibroLindsay | 6 altre recensioni | Jun 18, 2021 |

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