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.

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»In the individual case studies [...] interesting and partly new perspectives on the human-animal relationship in the working context, but also on work in general, are developed and discussed.«

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»At a time when more-than-human ontologies are on many disciplines agendas, »Animal Labor« 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, www.europenowjournal.org, 28.02.2020 20200428

Product details

• Assisted by: Jean Estebanez (Editor), Jocelyne Porcher (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2019
• EAN: 9783837643640
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4364-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: Human-Animal Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Philosophie, Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin, Media Studies, Sociology, History: specific events & topics, Cultural Studies, Business & Economics / General, Economics, finance, business & management, Human, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Economics, Arbeits- / Einkommensökonomie, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Animal, Social interaction, Philosophy, Animals, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, General & world history, Social Sciences, Economic history, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Work, Political structure & processes, auseinandersetzen, Labour Economics, Production, Human-Animal Studies, Political Economy, Social impact of environmental issues, Bio-ethics, Population & demography, Human Geography, Labor Economics, Sociology and anthropology, Film Theory & Criticism, Central government policies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Philosophy and psychology, Culture and institutions, The political process, Factors affecting social behavior, Economics of land and energy, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government), History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Occupational ethics, Public performances, Human-Animal Relations, Animal Labor