This Wreckage

Author and journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) joins Sean and Jamie to discuss her new book, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone." Antifada listeners know "do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life" is a dirty lie told by capitalists. But where did this idea come from? In this book, Jaffe traces the rise of "labor of love" ideology to the neoliberal turn of the 1970s, explains how it intersects with racism and sexism, shows how it damages workers, and lastly, gives some ideas for how to defeat it.

Buy the book: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/work-wont-love-you-back/9781568589398/

Outro song: Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"

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In this episode Andy and Sean sit down with Phil A. Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' to talk about his work and travels and how they helped him reconceptualize working class life in the United States and abroad. We discuss the particular geography of accumulation and exploitation that has created glittering global cities of commerce and finance, alongside impoverished and a dystopian far hinterland. We bring it up to the present with the political ramifications of this new landscape, how it reconfigures class struggle as seen in the Ferguson protests, last summer's insurrection and the waves of riots across the planet.

Outro: Eminem ft Rihanna - Love the Way you Lie

Buy the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html

Phil's article on the pandemic : https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Crowned-Plague

Nihilist Communism by Monsieur Dupont: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism.pdf

Jamie and Leslie are back with a hot, fresh VC to sink your teeth into! On this edition, they discuss Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampire slice-of-life movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013), as well as Ana Lily Amirpour's Iranian vampire Western "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" (2014).

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