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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight by Timo
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- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9780300192483
- Book Title
- Every Twelve Seconds
- ISBN
- 9780300192483
- Subject Area
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Every Twelve Seconds : Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
- Item Length
- 0.8 in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Subject
- Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, Social History, Industries / Agribusiness, Violence in Society, Animal Rights
- Series
- Yale Agrarian Studies Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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A political scientist goes undercover in a modern industrial slaughterhouse for this twenty-first-century update of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day--one every twelve seconds. Working in the cooler as a liver hanger, in the chutes as a cattle driver, and on the kill floor as a food-safety quality-control worker, Pachirat experienced firsthand the realities of the work of killing in modern society. He uses those experiences to explore not only the slaughter industry but also how, as a society, we facilitate violent labor and hide away that which is too repugnant to contemplate. Through his vivid narrative and ethnographic approach, Pachirat brings to life massive, routine killing from the perspective of those who take part in it. He shows how surveillance and sequestration operate within the slaughterhouse and in its interactions with the community at large. He also considers how society is organized to distance and hide uncomfortable realities from view. With much to say about issues ranging from the sociology of violence and modern food production to animal rights and welfare, Every Twelve Seconds is an important and disturbing work.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300192487
ISBN-13
9780300192483
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143646342
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Every Twelve Seconds : Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, Social History, Industries / Agribusiness, Violence in Society, Animal Rights
Series
Yale Agrarian Studies Ser.
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ts1963.P33 2013
Reviews
"The book is superbly written, especially given the grimness of the subject."-Mark Bittman, The New York Times , Opinionator column, "Pachirat's extraordinary narrative tells us about much more than abused animals and degraded workers. It opens our eyes to the kind of society in which we live."-Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation, "Pachirat's extraordinary narrative tells us about much more than abused animals and degraded workers. It opens our eyes to the kind of society in which we live."-Peter Singer, author ofAnimal Liberation
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
664/.9029
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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