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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 17h

The Red & Black at UGA did a profile on me and my book! As an alum, I'm super excited! www.redandblack.com/culture/sara...

Sarah Mosseri’s ‘Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us’ investigates American work culture

Sociologist Sarah Mosseri is challenging a familiar idea in American work culture: the notion of the “workplace family.”

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 12d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Opinion | How Moms Got Caught in Trump’s Cross Hairs

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 12d

Ugh!!!

Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 13d

Meg-of-all-trades discusses the hope for sustainability after visiting New Zealand: "All I can tell you is that — on the other side of the planet...Climate change is a mutually agreed upon fact that helps push progress in sustainability forward." open.substack.com/pub/megoffsu...

Land of the Long White Cloud

How a visit to New Zealand gave me hope in the face of the climate crisis

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 14d

I first met @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the page of her book, Longing and Belonging. I was instantly mesmerized by her writing and thinking. She offered a model of what I aspired to be as a sociologist.

So grateful to have her support now as I publish my first book!

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · 23d

My latest Work Fails post breaks down some of the key concepts of the book, most notably "flash intimacy." Specifically, I show how the mechanisms of flash intimacy work together to trap talented people in unfulfilling roles.

Check it out, share and subscribe: lnkd.in/eFk2RXVt

Reposted by Sarah Mosseri

American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Sep 6

Learn about the University of Virginia’s Department of Sociology‬ & other sociology depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide‬‬‬

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Sep 4

I first met @jaclynswong.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy at WFRN in 2018 when I was a grad student presenting. She smiled, nodded, and later chatted with me. It was a small moment of mentorship that meant so much. I’m so grateful she endorsed Trust Fall.

Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Sep 2

Findings from my recent ASA presentation in Chicago. Would love to hear feedback! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

“We Don’t All Have the Same 24 Hours”: How Temporal Privilege Keeps Inequality Hidden

There’s much talk of time divides, but inequality isn’t just about hours on the clock. It’s about the friction in our days.

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Aug 14

So fun to share my latest research at ASA in Chicago. Great conversations, long overdue reunions & fabulous new connections!

Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 28

Based on my research, I'd add another problem with hiring processes - how they can wear our social networks thin. Applications that require activating your social network unnecessarily lead job seekers to use up social capital at an unsustainable rate.

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 28

The latest from Laid Off tackles the dehumanizing nature of today's hiring processes:"So many hiring practices, even at mission-driven companies, end up being extractive or unnecessarily opaque."

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 24

How conversations about AI are hiding more important political questions & serving as a scapegoat for long-brewing institutional problems www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going to Take All the Jobs?

Yes, generative AI is transformational. Will it eliminate most entry-level jobs? That depends. Will we continue to demand excessive returns on capital? If so, then we're in trouble.

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 24

I love this description of tactile poetry: open.substack.com/pub/thestag/...

what even is tactile poetry?

and how you can become a part of The Stag Project this week!

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 10

This recent post on Laid Off speaks to why we need more than relationships of trust at work: laid0ff.substack.com/p/laid-off-i...

Laid Off: In a Cab to the Cancer Hospital

"I know there are very few layoff-free fields, but media? What a shitshow."

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 5

My partner, sister-in-law & parents shoulder the bulk of care work for our aging relatives (each 25+hrs/week) but even my brother & I each spend 10+ hrs/week. That’s 120+ hrs weekly & we’re not exceptional-we have privileges many others don’t. All while the US keeps shrinking its care infrastructure

Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 4

Can America Recapture Its Populist Soul? My forthcoming book, Trust Fall, aims to equip workers with a language to fight back against capital www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-fourth-o...

A Fourth of July Question: Can America Recapture Its Populist Soul?

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Are we coming to remember that once again?

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jul 2

I wrote Trust Fall for four audiences: workers, managers/coaches/L&D professionals; activists/policy advisors; academics. Learn more about how Trust Fall might speak to you in my latest Substack. lnkd.in/eSVYYyS8

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jun 17

My latests on why a baby bonus won't fix a broken economy & hurts men in the process open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

How Pro-Birth Politics are Likely to Backfire on Men

Conservative pro-birth policies promote traditional family roles while ignoring the economic realities most families face—ultimately hurting the very base they claim to support.

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jun 9

"It comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore."

Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jun 9

"The prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event...

Prophet Song | Oneworld

'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023' A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from ...

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jun 9

I finally finished Prophet Song last night after having to put it down post-election. So much of this book is haunting me, but this quote was just so beautiful and poignant, as both someone who has been an observer of "other" societal crises and as someone living in the midst of one in her society

Prophet Song | Oneworld

'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023' A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from ...

oneworld-publications.com

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · Jun 4

Personal relationships can't fix structural problems.Yet American work culture expects interpersonal trust to solve what policies should address.New piece on why this 'workplace trust fallacy' is failing us all: open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

The Great Workplace Trust Fallacy

American workers have become experts at covering for each other when labor systems fail them, but this interpersonal trust is functioning as an unpaid safety net that's bound to collapse.

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Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · May 20

I have swag for everyone who pre-orders Trust Fall! If you pre-order (or already did), DM me your address & I'll send it your way :) And if you haven't pre-ordered yet, you can do that here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall (see buttons at the bottom of the page)

Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social · May 14

Frustration, critique, hope, encouragement! I needed this this morning.