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 is very nicely interwoven with the idea of passion seeking. This also allins really curiously, with the increasing inprecariety of the labor market since the 19 seventies. And it's this emphasis on finding meaning and fulfilment a alongside the sort of neo liberal idea that any one can succeed as long as they put in the work and are passionate enough. It creates an perfect storm of the potential for the passion principle to reproduce a inequality. Cami: In some ways, like that. I story of inequality you've outlined the and the different i guess, kind of pay off to being passionate about your choice of work.
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