024// The Work We Do For Love feat. Sarah Jaffe

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In this July 2021 episode of Requires Improvement, we are joined by author and journalist Sarah Jaffe, as we discuss and explore the wider impact of work in our lives in response to Sarah's recent publication "Work Won't Love You Back", a book which comprehensively analyses and challenges the insidious ways in which workers are convinced that our jobs and working conditions are necessary or fulfilling, especially in contexts where caring professionals are routinely coerced into tolerating exploitation and suffering. Hosted by Charlie with co-hosts Lauren and Anu, in a wide-ranging discussion we consider our complex relationships with jobs and careers, union organizing and class struggle in the US and UK education contexts, the role of second wave feminism, the patriarchy and neoliberalism in changing the fundamental parameters of work and our material conditions to the present day, and how systemic forces condition people into thinking about work and careers. "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone" by Sarah Jaffe can be bought here: https://housmans.com/product/work-wont-love-you-back-how-devotion-to-our-jobs-keeps-us-exploited-exhausted-and-alone/