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

Winner of the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in April 2011; the prize is awarded for the 'best first sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology': http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/PAM.htm

Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, 2011

This rigorous ethnography is the result of four years of research in a diverse range of commercial/hobby settings for livestock production (e.g., breeding, storing, fattening, marketing, medically treating and slaughtering). With slight changes in structure, its six substantive chapters easily constitute stand-alone analyses that are publishable as journal articles. However, in order to maintain the book’s uniqueness, none of its sections have appeared elsewhere. While its scope and time requirements merit double-weighting, the book’s quality too is certain, as evidenced by awards from the BSA (Philip Abrams Prize, 2011) and the ASA’s Animals and Society section (2011).