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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
Jessica Smith Rolston
Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
Jessica Smith Rolston
Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20% of all production crews in Wyoming's Powder River Basin - the largest coal-producing region in the US. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston set out to discover. Her answers offer a rich and surprising view of the working "families" that miners construct.
250 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 31, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780813563671 |
Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Dimensions | 152 × 230 × 21 mm · 388 g |
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