Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.
Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.
List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Preface. Watching Hogs Watch Workers xiii A Note on Photography xvii Introduction. The "Factory" Farm 1 Part I. Boar 1. The Dover Flies 33 2. The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor 45 Part II. Sow 3. Somos Puercos 73 4. Stimulation: Instincts in Production 89 Part III. Hog 5. Lutalyse 121 6. Stockperson: Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt 137 Part IV. Carcass 7. Miss Wicked 167 8. Biological System: Breaking in at the End of Industrial Time 177 Part V. Viscera 9. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease 203 10. Lifecycle: On Using All of the Porcine Species 211 Epilogue. The (De-)Industrialization of the World 239 Notes 247 References 265 Index 287
List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Preface. Watching Hogs Watch Workers xiii A Note on Photography xvii Introduction. The "Factory" Farm 1 Part I. Boar 1. The Dover Flies 33 2. The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor 45 Part II. Sow 3. Somos Puercos 73 4. Stimulation: Instincts in Production 89 Part III. Hog 5. Lutalyse 121 6. Stockperson: Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt 137 Part IV. Carcass 7. Miss Wicked 167 8. Biological System: Breaking in at the End of Industrial Time 177 Part V. Viscera 9. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease 203 10. Lifecycle: On Using All of the Porcine Species 211 Epilogue. The (De-)Industrialization of the World 239 Notes 247 References 265 Index 287
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