Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe and Sarah Jaffe

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568589379
• ISBN13: 9781568589374
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"