Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the SlaughterhousePaula Young Lee UPNE, 2008 - 308 pagina's Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, letting blood run through streets. A wholly modern invention, the centralized municipal slaughterhouse was a political response to the public’s increasing lack of tolerance for “dirty” butchering practices, corresponding to changing norms of social hygiene and fear of meat-borne disease. The slaughterhouse, in Europe and the Americas, rationalized animal slaughter according to capitalist imperatives. What is lost and what is gained when meat becomes a commodity? What do the sites of animal slaughter reveal about our relationship to animals and nature? Essays by the best international scholars come together in this cutting-edge interdisciplinary volume to examine the cultural significance of the slaughterhouse and its impact on modernity. Contributors include: Dorothee Brantz, Kyri Claflin, Jared Day, Roger Horowitz, Lindgren Johnson, Ian MacLachlan, Christopher Otter, Dominic Pacyga, Richard Perren, Jeffrey Pilcher, and Sydney Watts. |
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1 The Grande Boucherie the Right to Meat | 13 |
City of Blood 18671914 | 27 |
From Shed to Factory | 46 |
4 Animal Bodies Human Health and the Reform | 71 |
The Development of the British | 89 |
6 Humanitarian Reform Slaughter Technology | 107 |
Public and Private | 127 |
Slaughterhouse to the World | 153 |
9 The Politics of Meat Shopping in Antebellum New York City | 167 |
Reconstructing | 198 |
12 Abattoir or Packinghouse? A Bloody Industrial Dilemma | 216 |
Why Look at Slaughterhouses? | 237 |
List of Contributors | 289 |
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