“A remarkable achievement, and unlike any other workplace book I’ve encountered… A decoder ring of a book.”

— Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study

“A revelatory guide — sometimes humorous, always trenchant — to the subtle, contradictory, and potent force that is trust in the workplace.”

— Allison Pugh, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins

“Ranks among the best ethnographic accounts of how employers of all kinds manipulate intimacy on the job.”

— Melissa Gregg, author of Counterproductive

“Brilliant new language to name the harms wrought by our unequal system of work. For a renewed labor movement, Trust Fall stands tall.”

— Caitlyn Collins, author of Making Motherhood Work

“A timely must-read on trust in the modern workplace… important insights on what is at stake—and for whom—when workplaces are insecure and trust becomes paramount.”

— Megan Tobias Neely, author of Hedged Out

“Mosseri’s immersion in four American workplaces… gives us a powerful vocabulary for critiquing inequality in modern workplaces.”

— Jaclyn S. Wong, author of Equal Partners?

“After a few years in a workplace that absolutely weaponized trust disguised as ‘care,’ it landed very differently as I read it. Your book has helped me make sense of, heal from, and move forward.”

— Jonathan, reader

“An intelligent, insightful, well-researched and well-written book. Your work has given me more articulate explanations for some of the ‘yuckiness’ I have felt and experienced in jobs.”

— Jennifer W., reader