Sarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone; Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and her latest book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, all from Bold Type Books. Her journalism covers the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets, and her writing has been published in The Nation, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored podcast, with Michelle Chen, covering today’s labor movement, and Heart Reacts, with Craig Gent, an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism. Sarah has been a waitress, a bicycle mechanic, and a social media consultant, cleaned up trash and scooped ice cream and explained Soviet communism to middle schoolers. Journalism pays better than some of these. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.

Labor
In Major Win for Nurses, Judge Rescues Brooklyn Hospital From SUNY Shutdown
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Feature
John Lewis’ Advice for Young Activists: March
In a new graphic memoir, the civil rights leader shows youth how to get in trouble--good trouble.
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Opting for Free Time
Something’s missing from the work/life balance debate.
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Labor
A Race for Care in Brooklyn
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Dispatch
A Debt-Free Degree?
Oregon's new plan would eliminate upfront college costs.
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Labor
For Fast-Food Strikers in New York, It’s About ‘Moral Values’
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Feature
Young Activists Occupy Florida Capitol, Demand Justice for Trayvon
The 'Dream Defenders' won't be moved until the bigger issues in the Martin shooting are addressed.
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Labor
In National Day of Action To Raise Minimum Wage, New Yorkers Stage Stealth Sit-In
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Feature
Justice for Trayvon
'The whole damn system is guilty.'
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A ‘Buddha On Strike’ at Goldman Sachs
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Labor
Nurses—and a City Council Member—Brave Arrest To Stop SUNY Hospital Closing
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Labor
After Outcry, McDonald’s Franchise Drops Compulsory ‘Payroll Debit Cards’
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Feature
Taking the Caring Out of Teaching
New York's new teacher evaluation system is tests, tests and more tests.
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Labor
SUNY Defies Court Order as Nurses Fight to Save Long Island Hospital
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Labor
When There’s a Fee to Get Your Pay
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Labor
Despite Bringing the Surveillance State to Work, Bloomberg has Trouble Tracking Overtime
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Labor
Dirty Dishes: The Laundry Workers Center Aims to Make Another Workplace Cleaner
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Feature
Bad Green Jobs
The big launch of a New York bike-share program is marred by wage theft accusations.
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Labor
Sharecropping on Wheels
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Rats, Student Blocs and Solidarity Swarms: What to Expect on May Day 2013
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Labor
New York Didn’t Pull a Chicago, But Dissident Teachers Aren’t Giving Up
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Labor
Overworking Women: How Long Hours Lead to Gender-Segregated Jobs
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Labor
‘Fashion Police’ Accused of Wage Theft
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Labor
‘Si, Se Pudo!’: New Yorkers Win Paid Sick Days
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Labor
Grin and Abhor It: The Truth Behind ‘Service with a Smile’
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Labor
JFK Airport Security Workers Declare Strike, Protesting Lack of Training
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Labor
In New Report, 2,086 Domestic Workers Speak Out
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Labor
Hyatt Surveils Its Workers Via IPods
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Feature
Red Squares Everywhere
Will Quebec’s maple spring come south?
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The People’s LRAD
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Feature
Are Jobs on Their Way to Becoming Obsolete?
And is that a good thing, as Douglas Rushkoff recently suggested?
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