The Ethics of Animal Labor (eBook)

A Collaborative Utopia

Jocelyne Porcher (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XV, 135 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-49070-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book argues for a moral consideration of animal work relations. Paying special attention to the livestock industry, the author challenges the zootechnical denigration of animals for increased productivity awhile championing the collaborative nature of work. For Porcher, work is not merely a means to production but a means of living together unity. This unique reconsideration of work envisions animals as co-laborers with humans, rather than overwrought tools for exploitative, and often lethal, employment. Readers will learn about the disjunction between those focused on productivity and profit and those who favor a more ethical work environment for animals. Porcher's text also engages environmental and political debates concerning animal-human relations.

Jocelyne Porcher is Director of Research at INRA-SAD, France. Her research concerns relations between humans and animals at work.

Inhalt

Introduction1.What is Animal Husbandry?Discoveries and learningZootechnics, the  "science of the exploitation of animal machines"Laying down arms2. The promises of workWork and emancipationRecognition of work and assessment of ties Animal Husbandry, a nuisance that we would be better off without3. Industrial lifestock farms/animal productionContagion of suffering and moral sufferingA redoubtable analogy4. Animal deathThe industrial Abattoir: "difficult times"Killing animals5. Living without lifeWhat is the purpose of "Animal welfare"?Liberate animals?The logical conclusion of animal factory : in vitro meat6. Living with animals, a utopia for the 21st centuryWild and domestic: the wolf and the eweThe status of domestic animalsA good jobLiving conditions at workThe place of the death of animals in work The collaboration of animals at workConclusionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 135 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Original-Titel: Vivre avec les animaux, une utopie pour le 21ème siècle
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: animal husbandry • Animal work • Environment • Ethical treatment of animals • human-animal relations • labor relations
• ISBN-10: 3-319-49070-2 / 3319490702
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-49070-0 / 9783319490700