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Erin Cech, "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" (U California Press, 2021)

New Books in Economics

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Are Employers Benefiting From Passion?

Nii: I'm fascinated to hear about what, you know, exactly it is that employers are kind of getting from having these passionate employees. Nii: One of the things i kept hearing in the interviews is that people were willing to sacrifice the whole lot for work that they are passionate about. In some ways this isn't a dis of contemporary sociology, but a lotf contemporary sociology would stop at that point, says Nii.

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