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- Andersson, P. (2019) Who is the horse? Horse assisted therapy as a possibility for understanding horses. In Equine Cultures in Transition. Ethical Questions. Bornemark, J. Andersson, P., Ekström von Essen, U. (eds). Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Bachour, O. (2020) Alienation and Animal Labour. In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds) Oxford University Press
- Baratay, E. (2008) Bêtes de Somme: Des Animaux au Service des Hommes. La Martinière/Seuil
- Blattner, C. E. (2020) Animal Labour: Toward a Prohibition of Forced Labour and a Right to Freely Choose One’s Work. In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds) Oxford University Press
- Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K, Kymlicka, W. (2020) Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Oxford University Press
- Béguin, P., Dedieu, B., Sabourin, E. (2011) Le travail en agriculture : son organisation et ses valeurs face à l’innovation. L’Harmattan
- Benton, T. (1993) Natural Relations. Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice. Verso
- Bergmann, I. (2019) He loves to race – or does he? Ethics and welfare in racing. In Equine Cultures in Transition. Ethical Questions. Bornemark, J. Andersson, P., Ekström von Essen, U. (eds). Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Bornemark, J. Andersson, P., Ekström von Essen, U. (2019) Equine Cultures in Transition. Ethical Questions. Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Clark, J. L. (2014) Labourers or lab tools?: Rethinking the role of lab animals in clinical trials. In The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre. Taylor, N., Twine, R. (eds). Routledge
- Cochrane, A. (2012). Animal rights without liberation. New York: Columbia University Press
- Cochrane, A. (2016) Labour rights for animals. In The political turn in animal ethics, eds Garner, R., O’Sullivan, S. London: Rowman and Littlefied
- Cochrane, A. (2018) Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice. Oxford University Press
- Cochrane, A. (2020) Good Work for Animals. In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds) Oxford University Press
- Coulter, K. (2016) Animals, Work and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity. London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Coulter, K. (2019) Horses’ labour and work-lives: new intellectual and ethical directions. In Equine Cultures in Transition. Ethical Questions. Bornemark, J. Andersson, P., Ekström von Essen, U. (eds). Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Coulter, K. (2020) Towards Humane Jobs and Work-Lives for Animals. In Animal Labour. A new frontier of interspecies justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds). Oxford University Press
- Delon, N. (2020) The Meaning of Animal Labour. In Animal Labour. A new frontier of interspecies justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds). Oxford University Press
- Desvallon, M-B., Bourdin, L., de Granvilliers, B. (2020) Chiens de travail: Manuel juridique sur les chiens de sécurité, de sauvetage et d’assistance. Independently published
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2011) Zoopolis: A political theory of animal rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2016) Make it so: Envisioning a zoopolitical revolution. In Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose Book Series. Cavalieri, P. (eds). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 71-116
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2016) Rethinking membership and participation in an inclusive democracy. In Disability and Political Theory. Arneil, B., Hirschmann, N. (eds) Cambridge University Press, pp.168-197
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2017) Animals in Political Theory. In Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. Kalof, L. (eds). Oxford University Press
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2020) Animal Labour in a Post-Work Society. In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds) Oxford University Press
- D’Souza, R., Hovorka, A., Niel, L. (2020) Conservation Canines: Exploring Dog Roles, Circumstances and Welfare Status. In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds) Oxford University Press
- Eisen, J. (2020) Down on the Farm: Status, Exploitation, and Agricultural Exceptionalism. In Animal Labour. A new frontier of interspecies justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds). Oxford University Press
- Francione, G. (2004) Animals-Property or Persons? In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. Sunstein, C., Nussbaum, M. (eds). Oxford, New York: Oxford Press
- Garner, R., O’Sullivan, S. (2016) The political turn in animal ethics. Rowman and Littlefied
- Gillespie, K. (2016) Animals, Biopolitics, Law. Routledge
- Gorrell, G. K. (2003) Working like a dog. Ontario: Tundra Books
- Hamilton, L., Taylor, N. (2013) Animals at Work. Identity, Politics and Culture in Work with Animals. Brill
- Haraway, D. J. (2007) When Species Meet. University of Minnesota Press
- Hevia, J. L. (2018) Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare. The University of Chicago Press
- Lerner, H., Silfverberg, G. (2019) Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach and equine assisted therapy: an analysis for both humans and horses. In Equine Cultures in Transition. Ethical Questions. Bornemark, J. Andersson, P., Ekström von Essen, U. (eds). Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Meijer, E. (2019) When Animals Speak: Towards an Interspecies Democracy. NYU Press
- Miller, F. P., Vandome, A. F., McBrewster, J. (2010) Humphrey (Cat): Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Alphascript Publishing
- Mouret, S. (2012) Élever et tuer des animaux. PUF
- Noske, B. (1997) Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals. Black Rose Books
- Petitt, A. (2019) Working cowhorses in multispecies encounters. In Equine Cultures in Transition. Ethical Questions. Bornemark, J. Andersson, P., Ekström von Essen, U. (eds). Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Porcher, J. (2002) Éleveurs et animaux, réinventer le lien, Paris, Puf
- Porcher, J. (2011) Mettre au jour la place des animaux dans le travail. Dans P. Béguin, B. Dedieu et E. Sabourin. Le travail en agriculture : son organisation et ses valeurs face à l’innovation. Editions L’Harmattan, pp. 255-267
- Porcher, J. (2011) Vivre avec les animaux, une utopie pour le XXIe siècle
- Porcher, J. (2014) Une sociologie des animaux au travail. Dans Despret V., Larrère R., Les animaux: deux ou trois choses que nous savons d’eux. Editions Hermann, pp. 101-114
- Porcher, J. (2015) Animal Work. In Kalof L. (ed). The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. Online Publication
- Porcher, J. (2016) Entre domination et émancipation ; les animaux domestiques et le travail. Dans Jouan M., Goffi J.Y. (dir.), L’Animal. Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage. Vrin
- Porcher, J. (2017) The Ethics of Animal Labor. Palgrave Macmillan
- Porcher, J., Nicod, S. (2018) Domestication and animal labour. In Stepanoff, C., Vigne, J.D. Hybrid communities. Biosocial approaches to domestication and other trans-species relationships. Routledge
- Regad, C., Riot, C. (2020) La personnalité juridique de l’animal. Les animaux liés à un fonds. LexisNexis
- Wadiwel, D. J. (2020) The Working Day: Animals, Capitalism, and Surplus Time. In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Blattner, C. E., Coulter, K., Kymlicka, W. (eds) Oxford University Press
- Wilkie, R. (2015) Animals as Sentient Commodities. In The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. Kalof, L. (ed) Online Publication
Articles
- Barua, M. (2016) Nonhuman labour, encounter value, spectacular accumulation: the geographies of a lively commodity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42(2)
- Barua, M. (2019) Animating capital: Work, commodities, circulation. Progress in Human Geography 43(4), pp. 650-669
- Beldo, L. (2017) Metabolic Labor: Broiler Chickens and the Exploitation of Vitality. Environmental Humanities 9(1), pp. 108-129
- Berkey, B. (2017). Prospects for an inclusive theory of justice: The case of non-human animals. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34, 679–695.
- Blattner, C. E. (2020) Animal Labor, Ecosystem Services. Animal & Natural Resource Law Review, vol. XVI, pp. 1-39
- Blattner, C. E. (2020) Should animals have a right to work? Promises and Pitfalls. Animal Studies Journal 9(1), pp. 32-92
- Coeckelbergh, M. (2009). Distributive justice and co-operation in a world of humans and nonhumans: A contractarian argument for drawing non-humans into the sphere of justice. Res Publica, 5, 67–84
- Coulter, K. (2016) Beyond human to humane: A multispecies analysis of care work, its repression, and its potential. Studies in Social Justice 10(2), pp. 199-219
- Coulter, K. (2017) Humane Jobs: A Political Economic Vision for Interspecies Solidarity and Human-Animal Wellbeing. Politics and Animals vol.3
- Cruse, S. D. (2015) Military working dogs: Classification and treatment in the U.S. Armed Forces. Animal Law Review 21, pp. 249-284
- Dashper, K. (2019) More-than-human emotions: Multispecies emotional labour in the tourism industry. Gender, Work & Organization 27(1), pp. 24-40
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2014) Animals and the frontiers of citizenship. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 34(2), pp. 201-219
- Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2016) Locating Animals in Political Philosophy. Philosophy Compass 11(11)
- Emery, N. (2013) Born to run. The New Atlantis, Journal of Technology & Society, Winter/Spring, pp. 71-80
- Estebanez, J., Porcher, J., Douine, J. (2017) Travailler à faire semblant : les animaux au cinéma. Ecologie et Politique n° 54, pp 103-124
- Favre, D. (2010) Living Property: A New Status for Animals Within the Legal System. Marquette Law Review 93 (Spring):1022-1071.
- Favre, D. (2013) The Integration of the Ethic of the Respectful Use of Animals into the Law. Between The Species 16(1), pp. 166-185
- Gomes da Rocha, J. J. (2019) Laboralidade Animal: implicações ético-jurídicas. Rev. Bio. y Der. 45, 213-230
- Hribal, H. (2012) Animals are Part of the Working Class Reviewed. Borderlands, 11(2)
- Ingold, T. (1983) The architect and the bee: Reflections on the work of animals and men. Man, 18(1), new series, pp. 1-20
- Kallis, G., Swyngedouw, E. (2017) Do bees produce value? A conversation between an ecological economist and a Marxist geographer. Capitalism Nature Socialism 29(3), pp. 36-50
- Kymlicka, W. (2017) Social membership: Animal law beyond the Property/Personhood Impasse. Dalhousie Law Journal 40(1), pp. 123-155
- Lercier, M. (2019) Welfare protection of the animal-athlete in the sports company in light of the evolution of the legal regime for animals, dA. Derecho Animal (Forum of Animal Law Studies) 10/1
- Lonardo, L. (2020) Animal Labour. A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? Book Review. Journal of Applied Philosophy. doi: 10.1111/japp.12436
- Luna, D., Tadich, T. A. (2019) Why should human-animal interactions be included in research of working equids’ welfare? Animals 9, 42
- Mouret, S. (2015) Iros. Un chien d’aveugles, Un travailleur du care. Vacarme 70, pp. 192-203
- Plourde, L. (2014) Cat Cafés, Affective Labor, and the Healing Boom in Japan. Japanese Studies 34(2), pp. 115-133
- Porcher, J. (2011) The relationship between workers and animals in the pork industry: A shared suffering. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 24, pp. 3-17
- Porcher, J. (2013) Ce que les animaux domestiques nous donnent en nature. Revue du MAUSS 2013/2 N°42, pp. 49-62
- Porcher, J. (2014) The work of animals: a challenge for the social sciences. Humanimalia.Vol. 6, n°1
- Porcher, J. (2015) Le travail des animaux d’élevage: un partenariat invisible ? Courrier de l’environnement de l’INRA n°65, mars 2015, pp. 29-35
- Porcher, J. (2017) Ce que la prise en compte du travail animal peut changer au travail humain. Progressistes N°17, Travail, Entreprise et Industrie
- Porcher, J. (2017) Elmo et Paro. Pourquoi l’un travaille et l’autre pas et ce que cela change. Ecologie et Politique n° 54, pp. 17-34
- Porcher, J. (2017) Le programme ANR COW : l’ouverture d’un front de recherches inédit sur le travail animal. Natures Sciences Sociétés 2017/2 N°25, pp. 172-179
- Porcher, J., Lécrivain, E. (2012) Bergers, chiens, brebis : un collectif de travail naturel? Études rurales 189, pp. 121-138
- Porcher, J., Lécrivain, E. (2017) La louve et la chienne patou : la liberté et le travail. Ecologie & Politique 2017/1 N°54, pp. 65-78
- Porcher, J., Nicod, S. (2017) Les chevaux au laboratoire, entre conditionnement et travail. Ecologie et Politique n°54, pp. 79-86
- Porcher, J., Schmitt, T. (2010) Les vaches collaborent-elles au travail ? Une question de sociologie. Revue du MAUSS n° 35, premier semestre 2010. « La gratuité », pp. 235-261
- Porcher, J., Schmitt, T. (2012) Dairy cows: Workers in the Shadows? Society & Animals 20, pp. 39-60
- Shaw, R. (2018) A case for recognizing the rights of animals as workers. Journal of Animal Ethics 8, pp. 192-208
- Schuurman, N. (2021) Animal work, memory, and interspecies care: police horses in multispecies urban imaginaries. Cultural geographies, 00(0), pp. 1–15. DOI: 10.1177/14744740211003651.
- Taylor, N., Fraser, H. (2019) Resisting sexism and speciesism in the social sciences: Using feminist, species-inclusive, visual methods to value the work of women and (other) animals. Gender, Work and Organization, 26(3), pp. 343-357.
- Upjohn, M., Valette, D. (2014) The relationship between working equids and women in developing countries. Equine Veterinary Journal 46 (S47). Special Issue: Clinical Research Abstracts of the British Equine Veterinary Association Congress 2014
- Wadiwel, D. J. (2018) Chicken Harvesting Machine: Animal Labor, Resistance, and the Time of Production. South Atlantic Quarterly 117(3), pp. 527-549
- Zuolo, F. (2020) Cooperation with Animals? What is and What is not. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33, pp. 315-335
Reports, Manuals and Guidelines
- Association GRAAL (2017) Guide de la retraite des Animaux de Laboratoire. From Lab to Home, 1ère édition.
- Brooke. Annual Report & Accounts 2019/2020.
- Brooke (2014) Invisible Helpers. Women’s views on the contribution of working donkeys, horses and mules to their lives.
- Brooke (2015) Invisible Workers. The Economic Contributions of Working Donkeys, Horses and Mules to Livelihoods.
- Brooke (2016) Welfare Interpretation Manual.
- Brooke (2021) The contribution of working livestock to the food security agenda for policy and programming: the urgent case for recognition.
- Brooke. Proud to be Brooke. Global Strategy 2016-2021.
- Brooke, The Donkey Sanctuary, International Labour Organization (2017) Brick by Brick. Environment, Human Labour & Animal Welfare.
- SPANA. The next steps: SPANA Strategy, 2018-2022
- SPANA. Treat, Train, Teach. Annual Review 2019/2020
- UN General Assembly, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 21 October 2015, A/RES/70/1
- UN General Assembly, World Charter for Nature., 28 October 1982, A/RES/37/7
- World Horse Welfare, The Donkey Sanctuary. One Health and One World: Working Animals to help achieve a Safe and Sustainable World.
Web
- Animal Ethics. Animals as workers and tools.
- Barua, M. Society for Cultural Anthropology. Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective. (26 July 2018).
- Brooke. Invisible Workers Infographic.
- Brooke. Responsible Use of Animals in Tourism.
- Brooke. Working Equids & Sustainable Development.
- Brooke. Working Livestock and the Sustainable Development Goals in Pictures.
- Brooke. Working Livestock’s Vital Role in Sustainable Development.
- Cailloce, L. CNRS NEWS. ‘Do animals work?’ (27 April 2016).
- Coulter, K. HuffPost. We benefit from Animal Labour, so let’s start treating them as Workers. (28 February 2018).
- Coulter, K. The Conversation. Beyond beasts of burden: How to reward our animals for their work. (4 March 2018).
- Coulter, K. The Conversation. How the hard work of animals benefits us too. (4 May 2018).
- Coulter, K. The Conversation. ‘Hudson & Rex’: Charming canine actor challenges us to look at animal labour. (9 March 2020).
- Coulter, K. The Globe and Mail. Caring for the animals who work for us. (21 November 2016).
- Coulter, K. The Huffington Post Blog. Animals are workers, too (2 December 2014).
- Female First. 10 Reasons why we need to help working animals in developing countries. (13 October 2017).
- Horsetalk. Should labor laws be used to protect horses? (21 February 2019).
- Horsetalk. International Working Animal day shines a light on equine ‘essential workers”. (20 November 2020).
- Humane Jobs. Working for Human and Animal Wellbeing
- Lercier, M. ‘The participation of horses in human activities. A way of working’. Presentation given at the 3rd International Equine Welfare Conference organized by Proyecto Caballo, from May 25th to June 7th, 2020
- Lew, J. Treehugger. Rats: Unexpected Heroes of the Working Animal World. (19 February 2021).
- Porcher, J. (2014) Question animale. Don et contre don. Revue les Zindignés n°15.
- SPANA. Working Animals and the Sustainable Development Goals.
- SPANA. Working Animals, Then and Now.
- The Brooke Hospital for Animals (Brooke).
- The Guardian. Larry, the No 10 cat, celebrates 10 years on the seat of power (13 February 2021).
- Tikkanen, A. Britannica. ‘Working like a dog: 7 animals with jobs’.
- Wadiwel, D. PPE. On the labour of animals. (28 August 2018).
- We Animals Media. Working Animals.
- World Animal Protection. Protecting working animals.