From Interesting to Influential

Abstract

AbstractIn addition to offering much-needed diagnostic and analytical insights that reflect the current realities of human-animal labour and relations, an attentive and ethically engaged organization studies can develop compelling, proactive, and forward-looking scholarship. Such generative analyses are particularly urgent and necessary to seriously recognize the physical, psychological, emotional, and intergenerational harm many forms of human labour and production cause to other species—and to particular groups of people. Accordingly, this chapter will consider the ways that organization scholars can build from a deeper understanding of the present, in order to offer valuable and nuanced ideas, proposals, and provocations focused on possible futures. Using the case of factory farming, the chapter will explore what more ethical, sustainable, and humane rural economic communities could look like after industrial animal agriculture, and how both human and animal wellbeing could be interwoven.