Erin Cech, "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" (U California Press, 2021)
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Are You Passionate About Your Work?
The idea that we are solely responsible for our own lives and our own tunity structures is very nicely interwoven with the idea of passion seeking. This also allin, really curiously, with the increasing in precariety of the labor market since the 19 seventies. And it's this this emphasis on finding meaninga fulfilment im alongside the sort of neo liberal idea that any can succeed as long as they put in the work and are passionate enough. That creates a perfect storm of the potential for the passion principle to reproduce a inequality.
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