Author and researcher Amelia Horgan explores what work is, how capitalism shapes our lives and society, and what we can do about it.

Work is an essential part of human life. Manual labor maintains the body, and putting effort into creating something useful or beautiful gives us a sense of accomplishment.

Under capitalism, however, the positive effects of work are outweighed by the exploitative and extractivist nature of the market.

Amelia Horgan is a British writer, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Essex's School of Philosophy.

In this installment of Pluto Press' Outspoken series, Horgan explores how the nature of work has changed in contemporary society, what it does to workers' health and wellbeing, and what forms of anticapitalist resistance are available to us.