{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\u201cWork Won\u2019t Love You Back\u201d","description":"Continuing Off-Kilter\u2019s ongoing series of conversations with leaders across the economic justice movement delving into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is indeed political warfare\u2014and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work\u2014this week\u2019s episode zooms out to take a look at the \u201clabor of love\u201d ideology underpinning the notion that social justice advocates must \u201csuffer for the cause.\u201d To do that, Rebecca sat down with longtime labor reporter Sarah Jaffe, whose latest book Work Won\u2019t Love You Back surveys a host of structural factors that have conspired to create burnout culture and what Rebecca has come to call \u201cwork sickness\u201d in America\u2019s nonprofit sector\u2014which doesn\u2019t overlap perfectly with the social justice movement but which plays an outsized role in employing people who feel called to devote their lives to a particular social justice cause. They had a far-ranging conversation about the origins of America\u2019s \u201clabor of love\u201d ideology; the history of the nonprofit sector and the culture of martyrdom that\u2019s become so deeply embedded in movement work; how \u201cwork sickness\u201d has come to be its own cross-class pandemic amidst late-stage capitalism; and why radical self-care requires redefining our relationship to work.  For more: Read Work Won\u2019t Love You Back (the whole thing is worth reading, but chapter 5 focuses on the nonprofit sector) Follow Sarah on Twitter @sarahljaffe ","author_name":"OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas","author_url":"https:\/\/tcf.org\/off-kilter\/","html":"