This article contributes to an understanding of the nexus between humans and animals by drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a British chicken factory and, more particularly, by exploring the emotional subjectivity of Meat Inspectors employed by the Food Standards Agency to oversee quality, hygiene and consumer safety within this plant. We argue that these Inspectors displayed a complex range of often contradictory emotions from the ‘mechanized’ to the ‘humanized’ and link this, in part, to the technocratic organization of factory work that compartmentalizes and sanitizes slaughter. This serves to de-animalize and commodify certain animals, which fosters an emotional detachment from them. In contrast to research which suggests that...
open access journalThere are varied social formations that contemporary human-animal relations assum...
Wiebers & Feigin’s (W&F’s) target article warns of the zoonotic threat to human health from factory ...
Chapitre 16Although the presence of animals in our lives seems natural, it is not; it depends on wor...
This article contributes to an understanding of the nexus between humans and animals by drawing on e...
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n33p68 This article aims to discuss the new requirements...
The emotional effects of euthanizing unwanted animals on professional animal control personnel are e...
In February 2017 I set out to explore the working conditions of ten animal welfare inspectors from t...
The care and upkeep of animals raised for human consumption has devolved into an industrial operatio...
The emotional effects of euthanizing unwanted animals on professional animal control personnel are e...
It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures....
Proponents of humane or traditional husbandry, in contrast to factory farming, often argue that main...
Research on shifting attitudes or behaviors surrounding the use of animal products traditionally foc...
Humans' relationships with non-human animals are complicated and complex. This thesis aims to addres...
Animal caretakers fill an important role in society - performing both hard and dirty work as they lo...
It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures....
open access journalThere are varied social formations that contemporary human-animal relations assum...
Wiebers & Feigin’s (W&F’s) target article warns of the zoonotic threat to human health from factory ...
Chapitre 16Although the presence of animals in our lives seems natural, it is not; it depends on wor...
This article contributes to an understanding of the nexus between humans and animals by drawing on e...
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n33p68 This article aims to discuss the new requirements...
The emotional effects of euthanizing unwanted animals on professional animal control personnel are e...
In February 2017 I set out to explore the working conditions of ten animal welfare inspectors from t...
The care and upkeep of animals raised for human consumption has devolved into an industrial operatio...
The emotional effects of euthanizing unwanted animals on professional animal control personnel are e...
It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures....
Proponents of humane or traditional husbandry, in contrast to factory farming, often argue that main...
Research on shifting attitudes or behaviors surrounding the use of animal products traditionally foc...
Humans' relationships with non-human animals are complicated and complex. This thesis aims to addres...
Animal caretakers fill an important role in society - performing both hard and dirty work as they lo...
It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures....
open access journalThere are varied social formations that contemporary human-animal relations assum...
Wiebers & Feigin’s (W&F’s) target article warns of the zoonotic threat to human health from factory ...
Chapitre 16Although the presence of animals in our lives seems natural, it is not; it depends on wor...