Book

Make Your Own Job

How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

Erik Baker

2025

Harvard University Press

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Book Review

The Bleak History of the American Work Ethic

In "Make Your Own Job," Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost.

by Nick Juravich via The Nation on January 6, 2026
Book Review

Make Your Own Job

A new book examines Americans' long obsession with the enticing and oppressive concept of entrepreneurship.

by Andrew Hartman via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 30, 2025
Book Review

The Cult of the Entrepreneur

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein via The New Republic on February 17, 2025
Book Review

The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic

You’re passionate. Purpose-driven. Dreaming big, working hard, making it happen. And now they’ve got you where they want you.

by Anna Wiener via The New Yorker on January 27, 2025

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