Description: Argues that workers' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.
Brief description: Nate Holdren is Assistant Professor in Law, Politics and Society at Drake University, Iowa.
Review Quotes: 'Charting the shift from the tyranny of the trial to the tyranny of the (actuarial) table, Nate Holdren illuminates the biopolitics behind workers' compensation. Deeply humane, Injury Impoverished joins theory to storytelling to place the history of disability into conversation with the history of capitalism, rejecting the commodification of life.' Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019