Riegel, Julie <br/><br/>
Breeders in the slaughterhouse: A common workplace with systemic effects 

 -  2024.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> From the 1950s, the system of slaughtering livestock gradually became industrialized, as did the agricultural model, through a process of privatization, concentration, and a productivist rationalization of work. However, in parallel with this phenomenon, some small and local slaughterhouses threatened with closure have been taken over by farmer collectives, in order to ensure that these facilities continue to be maintained, used, and invested in. Today, these little-known success stories are becoming a source of inspiration and a model for new initiatives, in the context of farming and consumer networks seeking to develop alternatives to industrial slaughter as well as locally based food systems. Based on ethnographic research conducted in a farmer-run slaughterhouse in the Alps, this article shows how the collective nature of the labor in this abattoir reframes the industrial model of slaughter, modifying the aims and the norms of this dominant and controversial system.