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Sarah Jaffe's 'Work Won't Love You Back' [Sociology Research Event (22 April, FRE 39, 1-3pm)]
On Wednesday,
22 April (Freeman F39, 1-3pm), we'll host American writer, reporter, and researcher
Sarah Jaffe. Her journalism covers the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets, and her writing has been published in
The Nation, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and many other outlets.
Her most well-known book is
Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Bold Type Books, 2021), an impressive outline of contemporary phenomena of what she calls the 'labour of love', where she harshly challenges one of the most poisonous elements in our lives, the productivist ethos deployed merely to chain us to worsening conditions of work and to accept its parameters. We'll chat about this and other aspects of her research.
Sarah's new book, Heterosexuality is Broken, is forthcoming from One Signal.
Info: Yari Lanci (y.lanci@sussex.ac.uk)
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By: Yari Lanci
Last updated: Thursday, 16 April 2026