Animal Labor - (Human-Animal Studies) by Jean Estebanez & Jocelyne Porcher (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Animal Labor </i>is a thought-provoking volume that forges a path for a reconceptualization of human-animal interrelations and demonstrates that analyzing working animals is also one way to learn about ourselves as humans.--Hélène B. Ducros "EuropeNow "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>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.
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