Sarah Jaffe
Labor journalist and author
Sarah Jaffe is an American labor journalist. She wrote Work Won't Love You Back, which examines why people have come to love their jobs and what that costs them.
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American Born in Massachusetts, United States
About Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is an American journalist who covers labor and work. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The New Republic. She has written Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt (2016), Work Won't Love You Back (2021) and From the Ashes (2024). Work Won't Love You Back looks at how people came to love their jobs, or feel pushed to pretend they do, and how that drains workers of security, money and happiness. She writes a column for The Progressive and New Labor Forum, and she co-hosts Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast. Before that, she worked as a staff writer for In These Times and as labor editor at AlterNet.