Ep 137 - Work Sucks (I Know) w/ Sarah Jaffe

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) joins Sean and Jamie to discuss her new book, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone." Antifada listeners know "do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life" is a dirty lie told by capitalists. But where did this idea come from? In this book, Jaffe traces the rise of "labor of love" ideology to the neoliberal turn of the 1970s, explains how it intersects with racism and sexism, shows how it damages workers, and lastly, gives some ideas for how to defeat it.

Buy the book: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/work-wont-love-you-back/9781568589398/

Outro song: Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"

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0:00.0	Happy first day of spring of
0:08.3	day of spring dude.
0:09.8	exciting huh we made it. It's spring again.
0:15.0	In this pandemic, we've gone from this winter of our discontent to the spring of our
0:20.6	discontent.
0:21.6	So the second spring of our discontent. Second the second spring of our discontents.
0:24.0	Because I'm about to have my second lockdown birthday
0:26.0	and I'm mad about it.
0:28.0	Oh, man, sorry.
0:29.0	Oh, I just had my second one.
0:31.0	But I was ready this time and I got a cabin in the woods and me and my friends all got
0:36.8	COVID tests and we went and had a nice birthday party that last degree.
0:41.2	That's how you got to do it. Is everyone getting the
0:43.6	vax? Are you guys getting a vaccine or what? Working on it. I have an
0:49.3	appointment April 12th, but I might try to move it up somehow because Debbie wants me to go to Florida with her and I'd rather get vaccinated before I do that.
0:59.0	Yeah, Florida.
1:00.0	Oof, Maron. That's a really good idea. Mine's on the 29th, so eight days from now I get my first one.
1:08.0	But oh my God, does it knock you on your ass? My girlfriend got the second the other day and for like 24 hours she was a wreck just like having a flu basically.
1:18.8	That's lovely. Well better than better than real COVID right? Yeah, for sure. Little baby COVID, just a
1:25.0	touch of the COVID, just a taste. Just one day.
1:28.0	Yeah.
1:30.0	That's right. Shall we start a podcast or is this going to be like personal vaccine anecdote show?
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