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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568589395
• ISBN13: 9781568589398
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.3"