Sarah Jaffe (journalist)

Sarah Jaffe (born 1980) is an American freelance journalist, known for her work on labor, economic justice, feminism, social and psychological aspects of labor, and the politics of power and wealth disparities. Her articles have been published by The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Template:The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and The American Prospect. She is a columnist for New Labor Forum and The Progressive. Jaffe is the cohost, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast.

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If Donald J. Trump stood out to voters from the rest of the Republican Party, aside from a willingness to say directly the kinds of things usually carefully dogwhistled, it was in his rants about trade and his lack of interest in dismantling the remnants of the welfare state. For white Americans anxiously looking at their disappearing stability, Mr. Trump was a bomb they were willing to throw at a system they felt was failing them. He emotionally echoed their outrage and gave them a place to direct their anger, the age-old right-wing populist trick of refracting it both upward at elites and downward at minorities.
- (November 9, 2016)"The Democrats’ Deadly Error". The New York Times.

Nomi Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs turned journalist and author of All the President’s Bankers, says that rather than make sincere promises Trump simply attacked weaknesses, taking advantage of widespread anger at Wall Street to score points against first his Republican opponents and then Clinton. Mnuchin, she points out, was his finance adviser the whole time. “There were more apparent Wall Street connections through Hillary Clinton because of the foundation, the speeches and because of Bill Clinton that were real,” she says, “but these are bipartisan relationships; Wall Street is a bipartisan opportunist.” (That relationship is visible in New York City, where Alicia Glen, formerly of Goldman Sachs, serves as deputy mayor to Bill de Blasio.)
- (18 January 2017)"‘The swamp is Goldman Sachs’: how the bank is rewarded for putting profits over people". The Guardian.

... the expectation that we will love our jobs isn't actually all that old. Once upon a time, it was assumed, to put it bluntly, that work sucked, and that people would avoid it if at all humanly possible. From the feudal system until about about thirty or forty years ago, the ruling class tended to live off its wealth. The ancient Greeks had slaves and banausoi—a lower class of workers, including manual laborers, skilled artisans, and tradespeople—to do the work so that the upper classes could enjoy their leisure time and participate in community life. If you've ever read a Jane Austen novel and wondered how those people who don't seem to do much of anything (except hem and haw about whom to marry) got by, you get the general picture. Work, to the wealthy, was for someone else to do.
- "Introduction. Welcome to the Working Week". Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. PublicAffairs. 2021. ISBN 1568589387.