Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow, co-host (with Michelle Chen) of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, and a columnist at The Progressive. She was formerly a staff writer at In These Times and the labor editor at AlterNet. Her previous books are Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, which Robin D.G. Kelley called The most compelling social and political portrait of our age.” You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia and a bachelor’s degree in English from Loyola University New Orleans. Sarah was born and raised in Massachusetts and has also lived in South Carolina, Louisiana, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, and currently calls New York home.

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SUNY Defies Court Order as Nurses Fight to Save Long Island Hospital
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When There’s a Fee to Get Your Pay
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Despite Bringing the Surveillance State to Work, Bloomberg has Trouble Tracking Overtime
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Dirty Dishes: The Laundry Workers Center Aims to Make Another Workplace Cleaner
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Bad Green Jobs
The big launch of a New York bike-share program is marred by wage theft accusations.
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Sharecropping on Wheels
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Rats, Student Blocs and Solidarity Swarms: What to Expect on May Day 2013
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New York Didn’t Pull a Chicago, But Dissident Teachers Aren’t Giving Up
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Overworking Women: How Long Hours Lead to Gender-Segregated Jobs
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‘Fashion Police’ Accused of Wage Theft
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‘Si, Se Pudo!’: New Yorkers Win Paid Sick Days
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Grin and Abhor It: The Truth Behind ‘Service with a Smile’
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JFK Airport Security Workers Declare Strike, Protesting Lack of Training
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In New Report, 2,086 Domestic Workers Speak Out
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Hyatt Surveils Its Workers Via IPods
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Red Squares Everywhere
Will Quebec’s maple spring come south?
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The People’s LRAD
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Are Jobs on Their Way to Becoming Obsolete?
And is that a good thing, as Douglas Rushkoff recently suggested?
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