In Sick Work, Rogers shows the unpaid labor it takes to be recognized as sick in the United States. Through a historical and ethnographic account of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)-a disease defined by disproportionate exhaustion after any form of exertion, which has no cures or treatments-she reveals how changing formations of labor decide what counts as disability and what does not. Sickness, she writes, is not work’s opposite. Rather, people with ME/CFS are forced to do their own labor of disease advocacy, or “sick work,” even as their symptoms prevent many from working paid jobs. Examining the everyday lives of people with ME/CFS and their activist movements, Sick Workdemands a radical transformation of how work is defined and valued.