Wages for Pain: On Work, Damage and Drudgery Under Capitalism

'Anthropologist Aaron Neiman connects worker pain to the pre-existing conditions of labor under capitalism - as work vanishes under the looming spectre of mass automation, work-induced injury remains an individualized, moralized phenomenon not adjacent to the demands of capital, but at its very center. Neimann wrote the essay "A Pain in the Back" for The New Inquiry.