How nature works rethinking labor on a troubled planet

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Besky, Sarah 1981- (Editor), Blanchette, Alex (Editor)
Resource Type:	Electronic Resource
Language:	English
Published:	Santa Fe University of New Mexico Press [2019]
Subjects:	Nature > Effect of human beings on > Case studies. Human ecology > Case studies. Environmental degradation > Case studies. Environmental economics > Case studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via EBSCO. Click here to access Also available remotely for University of the Philippines Diliman via EBSCO. Click here to access thru EZproxy

Table of Contents:

The ends of work
Exhaustion and endurance in sick landscapes : cheap tea and the work of monoculture in the Dooars, India / Sarah Besky
The concentration of killing : soy, labor, and the long green revolution / Kregg Hetherington
Making monotony : bedsores and other signs of an overworked hog / Alex Blanchette
Labor struggles
The job of finding food is a joke : orangutan rehabilitation, work, subsistence, and social relations / Juno Salazar Parreänas
The heat of work : dissipation, solidarity, and kidney disease in Nicaragua / Alex Nading
Metabolic relations : Korean red ginseng and the ecologies of modern life / Eleana Kim
How guinea pigs work : figurations and gastro-politics in Peru / Marâia Elena Garcâia
Industrial materials : labor, landscapes, and the industrial honeybee / Jake Kosek
Futures of work
Cultural analysis of microbial worlds / John Hartigan
Rhapsody in the forest : wild mushrooms and the multispecies multitude / Shiho Satsuka
Kamadhenu's last stand : on animal refusal to work / Naisargi N. Dave.