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Despite anticipating workers' apathy towards pigs, Blanchette instead finds an extreme emotional investment by workers to save every piglet. Through an anthropological and ethnographic study of vertically integrated pork production[1], Blanchette offers a detailed analysis of how top-down ideologies of industrialization impact workers' bodies and lives. In I Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm i , Alex Blanchette articulates the fallible logics of capitalism through the intensification of US pork production by examining "how the capitalist imperatives for growth take hold of industrial pigs" (p. 214) and, in turn, workers. [Extracted from the article] |
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