Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Timothy PachiratSeries:Yale Agrarian Studies (Paperback)Publish date:2013-03-29Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300192483ISBN-10:300192487UPC:9780300192483Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, Violence in Society, IndustriesBook Topic:Food IndustrySize:8.73 x 5.21 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC6KM1XE03
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
A political scientist goes undercover in a modern industrial slaughterhouse for this twenty-first-century update of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day--one every...Series: Yale Agrarian Studies (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300192483ISBN-10:300192487UPC:9780300192483Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, Violence in Society, IndustriesBook Topic:Food IndustrySize:8.73 x 5.21 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC6KM1XE03
Timothy Pachirat is assistant professor, Department of Politics, The New School. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Publisher: Yale University Press
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