Sarah Jaffe
In These Times
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Sarah:
The Hard Head and Wild Heart of Barbara Ehrenreich
Revisiting Nickel and Dimed, Dancing in the Streets, and many more of the late author's groundbreaking books. → Read More
This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Look to Marxists to Reimagine Love, Romance and Sex
It's not you, it's capitalism. → Read More
The US healthcare workers who can’t afford health insurance
Sandra JW Brown has been a home healthcare worker in Asheville, North Carolina for a little over a year, but she's worked in healthcare since 1993. In that time, she's worked as a certified nursing (...) → Read More
The big idea: should we work less?
A shorter working week could benefit society, the environment - even the economy. Is it time to reassess our relationship with our jobs? → Read More
Why ‘golden hellos’ won’t sort out Britain’s labour shortage
Employers have to face up Covid’s realities and offer better terms to frontline workers who now know their true worth, says author Sarah Jaffe → Read More
Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely
Demanding bosses, impossible workloads, 24/7 email – no wonder many employees feel they have no time outside work to find love → Read More
Against Loving Your Job
"We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will." → Read More
We need to pay key workers with more than just gratitude
The Covid pandemic is a sharp reminder that unpaid emotional labour is central to so many jobs, says the author Sarah Jaffe → Read More
Evictions Aren’t Inevitable When Tenants Fight Back
n July 7, tenants in Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by their community, staged a dramatic face off with their landlord. The house was located at 1214 Dean Street, in a rapidly gentrifying part of Crown Heights. It was a nine-bedroom, apparently zoned as a single-family dwelling, but rented out room by room to individual tenants, many of whom were left unemployed when the → Read More
The Growing Power of West Virginia’s Teachers
When the Mountain State’s teachers went on strike in 2018, they inspired a movement—now they’re showing us how to build a better union. → Read More
Bad Boss Trump, the Great Organizer
There’s an old saying in the labor movement that “the boss is the best organizer.” That is, nothing will unite a workforce faster than a bad boss; nothing will create class consciousness faster than an abusive manager at the helm. And what is Donald Trump but the worst possible boss? After all, the President became a household name by firing people on national TV. | By Sarah → Read More
The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar
While others on the left waffle on questions of imperial power and foreign relations, the freshman Democrat takes on American hegemony... lhan Omar has spent most of her adult life making trouble—good trouble, as her colleague John Lewis, with whom she’s just introduced a resolution supporting Americans’ right to participate in boycott movements, likes to say. → Read More
The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar
While others on the left waffle on questions of imperial power and foreign relations, the freshman Democrat takes on American hegemony... lhan Omar has spent most of her adult life making trouble—good trouble, as her colleague John Lewis, with whom she’s just introduced a resolution supporting Americans’ right to participate in boycott movements, likes to say. → Read More
The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar
While others on the left waffle on questions of imperial power and foreign relations, the freshman Democrat takes on American hegemony. → Read More
The people power behind Sanders’s debt cancellation plan
How activists forced this issue into the mainstream. → Read More
Justice for Trayvon
Trayvon was not killed by a police officer, but he was killed and his killer given a pass by a broader criminal justice system that sees young black men as suspicious, only able to be controlled through violence. By now of course you've heard that George Zimmerman, the admitted killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has been acquitted of murder by a Florida jury. You have probably also heard that… → Read More
The Exhilaration of Revolt
Teachers who have taken their fight to the streets have drawn our attention in the past years, but many others are rising up, too. → Read More
'Sheer Joy': Ireland Will Have Free Abortion Care on January 1
Abortion rights foes in Ireland failed to implement a range of provisions that have been pushed by anti-choice legislators across the United States. → Read More
Writing the Unions’ ‘Fight-or-Die Survival Chapter’
The growing labor militancy making headlines has its roots in slow, grinding efforts by workers all over the country. → Read More
The Movement Against Prison Abuse—From the Inside
Janos Marton of the ACLU’s Smart Justice program talks about a growing public awareness of the rampant inequality perpetuated by prisons, jails, arrests, and prosecutions, and what people on the outside can do. → Read More