Animal Labor: A New Perspective on Human-Animal Relations

Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collection offers original answers to these questions and allows readers to think about human relationships with domestic animals beyond the well-trodden tropes of domination or animal welfare. To study animal work means to look at animals in new ways and to discover in them unsuspected skills and knowledge that open up new ethical and political horizons.

Author: Jean Estebanez
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9783837643640
ISBN10: 3837643646
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | General
- Nature | Animal Rights

About the Author
Jocelyne Porcher is research director at the INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique). She has published many books on labor relations between humans and animals. Before she worked as a secretary, a dairy sheep farmer, in an industrial pork factory, and as a technician in organic farming.

Jean Estebanez is a lecturer in social and cultural geography at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. His recent publications deal with the question of the city's factory with animals and in particular the place that work takes there.