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work won t love you back how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited exhausted and alone skip to the content about sarah jaffe facebook twitter amazon work won t love you back menu appearances events press advance praise reviews reading group guides bio contact close menu appearances events press show sub menu advance praise reviews reading group guides bio contact facebook twitter amazon w o rk won t l o ve y o u back how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited exhausted and alone 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 they sacrifice their families almost the entire month of december i didn t see my husband he got up early for work i would come home and he would be sleeping then he would leave for work and i would be sleeping i was like you think i am not busting my ass every day at work this is a real job ann marie reinhart retail worker as soon as your child is one year old they want to see your cv if you don t have a job when your child is three years old they could be threatening you with sanctions and taking your money away it is a very punitive environment and a very difficult thing to have a toddler there with you it is demeaning it is really badly set up for actually getting a job ray malone artist and mother women are having their kids taken off them because of a variety of stresses that they are under because of poverty because of austerity because the situation that we re in is awful i m somebody with a postgraduate education that has still found a huge amount of struggle it is a really difficult thing to talk about you don t want to seem like a bad mother ray malone artist and mother you feel punished for having a child by yourself as a single woman motherhood is throwing a lot of women into poverty or a lot of women just make the decision i can t afford to have a child ray malone artist and mother the small scale stuff is where you actually build the biggest relationships with the people in your life and they remember you when you re just cooking or you re just chatting or you re just doing the constant low level care it is the thing that is making us human and the people that are teaching us to be human this is so undervalued but it s the most important thing in the world ray malone artist and mother sometimes the challenge is you have to leave your child and go take care of somebody else s child and you miss out on your child as much as they miss out adela seally nanny if domestic workers don t show up for work then the majority of the workforce can t show up for work i love my work because my work is the silk thread that holds society together making all other work possible adela seally nanny whatever is going on in your personal life you have to leave it at the door when you get there and put on your brightest happiest face for the baby and the employer no matter how you are feeling you have to suppress your emotions just to keep that job adela seally nanny the thing with having a bill of rights is that enforcing it can be really tricky and difficult some individuals can negotiate a really good contract when they go in for an interview some are very laid back for me when i started i had no idea about that sometimes we sell ourselves short adela seally nanny i always tell my nannies you have to demand respect because nannying is a profession you have to be proud to say that you are a domestic worker you are the pillars of society you hold up society adela seally nanny i realized i need to do something where i am serving the community but i also have an opportunity to be an organizer i don t see any other places other than teaching to be able to do that where you are in the middle of a community you are able to grow those relationships with parents with students with other teachers and really try to build something big and powerful rosa jimenez teacher we really have been inspired by black lives matter and their framework of divesting and investing divesting from policing and from other things that police our schools and students and communities and investing in things that see our students as fully human and provide them with what they need to really thrive rosa jimenez teacher i had this moment this week on the picket line where it was like oh i am also doing this for myself as a worker as a working class person as a single mom this is actually not that easy for me i am not getting paid i am actually also sacrificing it is okay to say this is also for me rosa jimenez teacher it is a job that i gave thirty years to so i am willing to fight we weren t treated well ann marie reinhart retail worker that is another thing with retail if you are good at a job no matter how crappy that job is they won t take you out of it some days you go home feeling depleted not only are you insulted and berated by customers you felt it double for your store manager to come out and give that customer what they wanted anyway ann marie reinhart retail worker we didn t think anybody cared about our story we made all these signs and i was like yes but we are six people we went to bain capital they have an office in dc we came around the corner and all of a sudden these two buses unloaded onto the streets of washington dc with signs and balloons and they were all walmart workers this one lady donna she said we got you we ve got your back i looked at her tearing up like oh my god she hugged me and i will never forget that day ann marie reinhart retail worker never in a million years had someone asked me where do you see yourself after you graduate college would i have ever said an abortion clinic but everything about it i was in love with i was in love with the patient care i was in love with my coworkers i felt like i could be myself and say the things that i had always been thinking but that people wouldn t agree with or that people would judge me for thinking ashley brink nonprofit staffer this comes up in every nonprofit if your mission your values are feminist driven then you cannot use not paying your staff as an excuse that is how it often felt that the respect and dignity and the reproductive justice framework was only afforded to patients and everyone else but not to staff we had to give that to them so we had to take it from us ashley brink nonprofit staffer how dare we expect to have a decent workplace well how dare they not pay us a living wage how dare they not listen to us when we have concerns about our working conditions ashley brink nonprofit staffer a lot of us get into this work because we have been impacted by some unjust issue or policy and to get to these organizations and just feel like we ve been duped essentially economic justice is not a separate issue from reproductive justice labor rights are just as much in line with reproductive justice values and feminist values ashley brink nonprofit staffer they argue well you don t do this work for the money you do it because you care about it it is like well both why can t i have both ashley brink nonprofit staffer my work is people in a way it is whoever is in the space at that moment and is creating whatever part of the revolution they are creating kate o shea artist ultimately i don t think it s possible to interrupt or go outside capitalism through art i do think it s possible through organizing kerry guinan artist one of the reasons why i want to start an artists union it s not even so much as fighting for better positions for ourselves i just don t think that the arts will be truly accessible until we create better working conditions for those that are in it i don t think working class people and marginalized communities will ever be as represented as we want them to be in the arts if we don t fight to change the field so that it is not so precarious and it s not so underpaid and doesn t rely so much on unpaid work kerry guinan artist it is all about building the movement of the artists it is like slowly working and building an army we joke about that now when we meet someone we are like they would be good for the army kate o shea artist i feel like they are training us for exploitation camille marcoux intern it was very visible during all the intern strikes that none of the workplaces none of the internship workplaces could afford to lose one intern it was a major major impact camille marcoux intern it was women who actually made suggestions to go on strike who defended the proposition the motions to go on strike the people who ran the meetings took the notes who really put themselves on the line were women who struggled with internships camille marcoux intern open an old encyclopedia and it says academic or professor what does that look like it looks like an office lined with bookshelves supplies paper nowadays their own printer so they can print twenty five copies if they need to or something it has the desk surface this is what academic work is suddenly they are expecting over 50 percent of their teaching faculty to work as if that is not how this labor was designed for some reason we can all work out of our cellphone or we can all work out of a satchel and we can do our grading on the subway katherine wilson adjunct professor i came in saying this is certainly the best fit in contemporary united states society for me to have all that discourse of branding yourself get your website and be something besides what we have been educating you to be was very very demoralizing and painful katherine wilson adjunct professor there is no question that the only time i have felt dignified working in a university was the activist work in the union here that is the most dignified relationship i have had my own work as an adjunct i can t think of a semester or a month where i would say that felt dignified that is what most political struggles have been fighting for in addition to the material gains and substantial rights katherine wilson adjunct professor maybe i crossed the country to start this job and i was fired in my first week after they told me i had now entered the family kevin agwaze games programmer i knew it was going to be bad for me i thought i am young my body is going to be fine i can do it for a while i can handle bad conditions kevin agwaze games programmer i played at a big 10 school that valued its athletics we won a lot of national championships and they put a lot of resources into us but upon graduation you are pretty much thrown to the wolves the pro leagues that had existed and do exist are nowhere near offering what the collegiate experience was like meghan duggan professional hockey player we knew that it could eventually get to the point where we would have to boycott a world championship that is our stanley cup that is our end all be all that is what we train for all year long in a non olympic year meghan duggan professional hockey player i can t even tell you how many phone calls i made but it felt like i called every single female hockey player in the entire country this is about all of us and this is what it means i don t know what you re hearing or what you re reading but from the horse s mouth this is what s happening this is what we re trying to change and we are asking you to stand with us meghan duggan professional hockey player we were energized by everything we had been through prior to that i remember hilary knight scored the game winning goal in overtime and the way we celebrated and rejoiced with each other was extra special that time see we told you we were worth something meghan duggan professional hockey player buy upcoming events more events by pulling apart the myth that work is love jaffe shows us that we can reimagine futures built on care rather than exploitation a tremendous contribution naomi klein 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 of being able to do what we love 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 told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries from the unpaid intern to the overworked teacher to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work as jaffe argues understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth and once freed from those binds we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy pleasure and satisfaction jaffe s committed on the ground engagement historical range and ferocious gathering of revolutionary thought combines to create something genuine and profound this book is a gift to its reader and to a possible future jordy rosenberg sassy and big hearted learned and astute a stunning achievement eileen boris a multiplex in still life a stunning critique of capitalism a collective conversation on the meaning of life and work and a discerning contribution to the demands of the future society everyone deserves jane mcalevey marvelously lucid thoroughly readable and wonderfully engaging kathi weeks a much needed intervention into a bad relation our employment neoliberalism is collapsing and you ll find no better guide to help sift through the wreckage than this book greg grandin work won t love you back has caused me to rethink my entire relationship to how i work and live read it and it will change you too david dayen sarah jaffe s years as a labor reporter have let her see frontlines where others have failed to look a book of rare importance raj patel a dazzling takedown of the myth of working for love and a call to arms for workers to invest their love and solidarity not in their jobs but in each other molly crabapple an indispensable addition to labor journalism labor history and much more broadly our understanding of what resistance looks like and could look like in these difficult times dave zirin more praise facebook twitter amazon mailing list indicates required email address first name last name email format html text 2026 sarah l jaffe design by beccatron studios to the top up