Victor Villas reviewed Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe
An exhaustive exploration
4 stars
Probably not the book for me because I was already in agreement with pretty much the whole thesis, so revisiting arguments and anecdotes on "How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited" wasn't super engaging or entertaining. The book contains a lot more testimonials and personal accounts than I expected, which might make sense for a target audience but it's not my jam. For someone not so into history, sociology, anthropology etc this might be a heavy read, it really goes from ground up on many intersectional topics.
I think this book is a great introduction to the issue and I recommend a read to help recent startup/corporate survivors to process their grief. I did find the ending a bit watery; the author had hundreds of pages to deconstruct the employee identity but gave themselves a few paragraphs to try to end on a positive note. Not very successful to …
Probably not the book for me because I was already in agreement with pretty much the whole thesis, so revisiting arguments and anecdotes on "How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited" wasn't super engaging or entertaining. The book contains a lot more testimonials and personal accounts than I expected, which might make sense for a target audience but it's not my jam. For someone not so into history, sociology, anthropology etc this might be a heavy read, it really goes from ground up on many intersectional topics.
I think this book is a great introduction to the issue and I recommend a read to help recent startup/corporate survivors to process their grief. I did find the ending a bit watery; the author had hundreds of pages to deconstruct the employee identity but gave themselves a few paragraphs to try to end on a positive note. Not very successful to my eyes, and I think it would have been best to not try. Embrace the depressive nature of being exploited by unfettered capitalism, no sugarcoating.
