Every twelve seconds : industrialized slaughter and the politics of sight / Timothy Pachirat.

By:

Pachirat, Timothy, 1976- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Yale agrarian studiesCopyright date: c2011Description: xii, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300192483 (pbk.)
0300152671 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

664.9029 PAC 23 017666

LOC classification:

TS1963 .P33 2011

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	664.9029 PAC 017666 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		017666

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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