{"title":"Sarah Jaffe","description":"Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. She is the author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the American Prospect, and many other publications. She is the cohost, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The Progressive and New Labor Forum.","products":[{"product_id":"from-the-ashes-grief-and-revolution-in-a-world-on-fire-hardcover","title":"From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a social critic and journalist, a poignant book that encourages publicly grieving of what we've lost in order to move towards a hopeful future. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Detailed, lucid and richly sourced, Sarah Jaffe's \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the transformational power of grief can fuel revolutionary change.\" ―\u003ci\u003eBookPage \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated. At the same time, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment, taking the time to grieve is a radical act. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world. When we are able to mourn the lives, the homes, and the worlds we have lost, we are better prepared to fight for a transformed future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] passionately felt study of global protest movements ... A writer of great curiosity and emotional honesty.\" --\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368283406559,"sku":"9781541703490","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JCID0zylER9781541703490.webp?v=1789125182"},{"product_id":"work-wont-love-you-back-how-devotion-to-our-jobs-keeps-us-exploited-exhausted-and-alone-paperback","title":"Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWork Won't Love You Back\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c\/i\u003e gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378749112543,"sku":"9781568589374","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PTSSKjaBaO9781568589374.webp?v=1789261645"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sarah-jaffe.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}