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b"For this episode of Salvage Live, Amelia Horgan, Sarah Jaffe, and our hosts discuss the Problem with Work, and what to do about it.\\n\\n***Please note: This discussion was recorded on May 30, 2022. We are releasing it now because the discussion remains highly relevant and valuable.***\\n\\nAmong capitalism\\u2019s greatest tricks has been its ability to get buy-in for the various magical tales it spins about work. From the Hallmark-worthy \\u2018do what you love and you\\u2019ll never work a day in your life,\\u2019 to the oft repeated line that \\u2018anyone can work hard and become a billionaire,\\u2019 we are inundated from birth with these and other seductive stories about the system\\u2019s many supposed virtues.\\n\\nYet these bromides are increasingly out of sync with our reality. As inequality grows to historic proportions, and the dreams of achieving fulfillment through our jobs butts up against the exploitative nature of our 9 to 5\\u2019s, the ideological varnish has finally begun to corrode.\\n\\nIn their recent books, Amelia Horgan and Sarah Jaffe both draw our attention to this chipping fa\\xe7ade and point to the burgeoning resistance\\u2014from unionization efforts at Starbucks and Amazon warehouses, to home health workers demanding better pay and benefits for their care work\\u2014to the pleasant sounding lies offered by capital\\u2019s conscious and unconscious defenders.\\n\\nIn this episode of Salvage Live Horgan and Jaffe will take on the problem with work in our current moment, and make the case for militant work-place activity and anti-capitalism as its only solution.\\n\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nAmelia Horgan is a writer, researcher and editor from London. She is currently a PhD candidate on work at the University of Essex\\u2019s School of Philosophy and Art History. Her first book, Lost in Work (Pluto Press) came out this year.\\n\\nSarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and the author of Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. You can read her piece in the latest issue of Salvage.\\n\\nAnnie Olaloku-Teriba is a writer and podcaster whose research focuses on how neoliberalism has transformed the theory and practice of \\u2018race.\\u2019\\n\\nBarnaby Raine is writing his PhD at Columbia University on visions of ending capitalism. He teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThis event is sponsored by Salvage and Haymarket Books.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/sJ7tvjLlD_U\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks"