Injury Impoverished w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, the history of worker's compensation reforms, and what this history can teach us about coronavirus as an occupational disease that spreads at work. Nate Holdren (@n_hold) is Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, & Society at Drake University. Buy his book here: https://bit.ly/3KR4Yec This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted December 20th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: https://bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

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0:00.0	How should we start?
0:00.8	Hey, everyone.
0:01.6	Hello.
0:02.3	So we're unlocking this interview from December today, which Phil and I did with Nate Holdren
0:08.1	about his book, Injury Impoverished, which this is a conversation about workman's comp laws
0:15.1	and legal regimes of certifying disability, but it's also a conversation about the ways that institutions
0:22.9	enforce the economic valuation of life. Yeah, we felt that, you know, we talked a little bit
0:28.4	about what we should do for today's episode, actually for today's public episode. And we kind of
0:33.3	ultimately decided that really what people needed to hear right now was this interview.
0:37.4	Yeah. Partially because of the conversation, the stuff about the economic valuation of life, but also just in general... ultimately decided that really what people needed to hear right now was this interview.
0:37.6	Yeah.
0:41.6	Partially because of the conversation stuff about the economic valuation of life, but also just in general because what with the greater discourse happening about what it means to be quote
0:46.7	unquote done with COVID and the so-called urgency of normal framework, both of which I think are things that we're going to be
0:55.8	talking about on Monday in the patron feed at length, which everyone should get excited about.
1:01.5	But I think wrapped up in those conversations about personally being done with COVID is the
1:05.8	sort of dismissal of, you know, obviously a lot of vantage points on, you know, what it means to, like,
1:12.4	live during COVID, but also especially, like, it pretty much ignores an entire conversation
1:17.1	about the role of disablement and debility in workplaces, which I think you guys really,
1:23.6	the three of you, addressed beautifully in this interview. Yeah, I think one of the values of Nate's book, and you like hear it come out in the interview
1:31.0	is like one of the things that happens with like workman's comp is this system is created
1:36.7	to deal with like the pretty nightmarish circumstances of industrial work and to actually like provide some sort of
1:47.0	you know remuneration for the injuries uh that occur in the workplace but i think one thing that
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