I joined Henri Sulku at Turning Point Magazine to talk work in all its permutations: Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles. […]
Upcoming Appearances & Events
Past Appearances & Events
New Books in Politics and Polemics: From the Ashes
I joined Tom Discenna of the New Books Network again, this time to talk about From the Ashes.
New Books in Education: Work Won’t Love You Back
I was on the New Books Network to talk about my decidedly un-new book, Work Won’t Love You Back, with Kelly Knight and Tom Discenna.
Scotonomics Festival
I’ll be in Leith for the Scotonomics festival March 19-21! You can buy tickets to the whole weekend or individual events; if you’re in the area do come through!
People Just Do Something – Love in the time of fascism
How do we love, organise, and look after each other under capitalism, crisis, and creeping fascism? Priyanka and Isaac sit down with Sarah Jaffe — industrial correspondent and author of Work Won’t Love You Back — to ask exactly that. She knows labour, love, and the labour of love.
ICE, resistance, and ‘capitalism without humans’ w/ Sarah Jaffe
On January 7th, Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year old prize winning poet and mother of three was murdered in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross. I joined Alex Doherty at Politics Theory Other to talk about the political background to the current situation in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.
Why We Have to Stop Expecting Work to Love Us Back, and How to Grieve What We Thought It Would Be Like, on Hard at Work Podcast
What if the heaviness you feel at work isn’t a personal failing — but capitalism doing what capitalism does? I joined host Ellen Whitlock Baker on the Hard at Work podcast for a wide-ranging, deeply grounding conversation about why so many of us feel exhausted, disillusioned, and even heartbroken by our jobs. Together, we explore how “do what you love” culture, hustle narratives, and nonprofit martyrdom have trained us to expect meaning, identity, and emotional fulfillment from work — and how devastating it can be when those promises inevitably fall apart.
A Conversation on Work and Intimacy with Sarah Mosseri
Employers love to talk about trust, teamwork, and “being a family.” In reality, that language keeps workers compliant and overextended.
I’m joining sociologist Sarah Mosseri to discuss discuss how emotional cultures at work mask exploitation.
The Dig: Death and Life Under Capitalism
I joined Dan Denvir on The Dig to talk about From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. The ordinary death of a loved one under a capitalist order that routinely forbids sufficient time off to mourn. Workplace injuries, deindustrialization, police violence, pandemic, genocide, social murder, and how we can make sense […]
How To Be A Better Human: Stop Devoting Yourself To Your Job
I got personal with Chris Duffy on the TED How to Be a Better Human podcast. I thought Chris did an excellent job weaving together a conversation about Work Won’t Love You Back and From the Ashes—it helped me, honestly, to see the connecting threads between these works and in fact all of my work.