Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

by Rhoda M. Wilkie

The connection between people and companion animals has received considerable attention from scholars. In her original and provocative ethnography Livestock/Deadstock, sociologist Rhoda Wilkie asks, how do the men and women who work on farms, in livestock auction markets, and slaughterhouses, interact with--or disengage from--the animals they encounter in their jobs?

Wilkie provides a nuanced appreciation of how those men and women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592136494
• ISBN13: 9781592136490
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"