Mining Coal and Undermining Gender Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West

Name: Mining Coal and Undermining Gender Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
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ISBN: 9780813563671

ISBN-10: 0813563674

ISBN-13: 9780813563671

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jessica Smith Rolston

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Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming's Powder River Basin--the largest coal-producing region in the United States. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston, herself a onetime mine worker and the daughter of a miner, set out to discover. Her answers, based on years of participant-observation in four mines and extensive interviews with miners, managers, engineers, and the families of mine employees, offer a rich and surprising view of the working "families" that miners construct. In this picture, gender roles are not nearly as…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English