> Rheumatic (Rheumatoid) Arthritis is a genetic disease. Grinding wheat
> does not cause it.
I think Carrol is talking, generally, about repetitive stress injuries under the dated term "rheumatism." The term might be wrong but quibbling over it doesn't make the condition he speaks of any less so, particularly when there is much evidence that there is a real resurgence the labor regime which thrives on the kind of absolute and relative extraction of surplus value that leads pretty directly to this kind of physical condition for the workers involved. But maybe you're just helping Carrol get his terminology right in which case we might call it the predictable result of, following Lipietz, "Bloody Taylorization."
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