A deeply reported examination of why doing what you love is a recipe for exploitation creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives < span>< p>

You re told that if you do what you love you ll never work a day in your life Whether it s working for exposure and experience or enduring poor treatment in the name of being part of the family all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love < p>

In Work Won t Love You Back< span> Sarah Jaffe a preeminent voice on labor inequality and social movements examines this labor of love myth the idea that certain work is not really work and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries from the unpaid intern to the overworked teacher to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work < p>

As Jaffe argues understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth And once freed from those binds we can finally figure out what actually< span> gives us joy pleasure and satisfaction < p>