Every twelve seconds : industrialized slaughter and the politics of sight / Timothy Pachirat.
Material type: TextSeries: Yale agrarian studiesCopyright date: c2011Description: xii, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300192483 (pbk.)
- 0300152671 (alk. paper)
- 664.9029 PAC 23 017666
- TS1963 .P33 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hidden in plain sight -- The place where blood flows -- Kill floor -- "Es todo por hoy" -- One hundred thousand livers -- Killing at close range -- Control of quality -- Quality of control -- A politics of sight.
The author relates his experiences working five months undercover at a slaughterhouse, and explores why society encourages this violent labor yet keeps the details of the work hidden.
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