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Work Won’t Love You Back with Sarah Jaffe

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The Nestalgic Story of Bringing Back the Factory Jobs

Is it a displaced affection for something that is lost, but a lot of people can't quite name? I mean, i think it is absolutely like a very deep human need to have meaning in our lives. We are, in part, looking for menic but like the nestalgia for the old job,. In some ways, itis nestalgia for a job where you didn't have to pretend to like it. And that's really gendered. That's why i wanted to write this book. It was about gendered labor. But when trump got elected, and the big story was the carrier plant, right? The carrier plant was closing, and trump, anne burney had

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