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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: A great many modern workers have internalized the labor-of-love ethic, a recent phenomenon today.
Chapter 2: Neoliberalism dismantled the Fordist compromise and radically reshaped the job market’s landscape and attitudes across industries.
Chapter 3: In today’s view of labor, work divides into two gendered spheres that closely mirror the prevailing labor-of-love ethic.
Chapter 4: The labor-of-love ethic justifies toiling harder and longer, for less pay and fewer benefits.
Chapter 5: The labor-of-love ethic devalues our labor, and weaponizes both the ideas and feelings of love against us as workers.
Chapter 6: The labor-of-love ethic deters unionizing and distances us from the people and pursuits we most deeply love.
Chapter 7: To free ourselves from the labor-of-love ethic, we must reconnect deeply with one another.
Chapter 8: The labor battle continues.
Description
Work Won’t Love You Back (2021) turns the conventional wisdom about a “good job” on its head. Drawing on extensive research, interviews, and reporting, it traces the historical origins and contemporary implications of all the ideas and rhetoric about “doing what you love.” The result is both a disturbing picture of the modern workplace and a rousing battle cry to fight for a better future.
Who Should Listen
- High-wage workers feeling overworked
- Low-wage workers feeling underpaid
- Anyone who has heard the phrase “Do what you love” too many times