Mining women : gender in the development of a global industry, 1670 to 2005
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Mining women : gender in the development of a global industry, 1670 to 2005
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [335]-344
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world. It also explores the subject from multiple perspectives and links each of these not only to cultural and domestic arrangements but also to an emerging industrial and capitalist system from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth centuries.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents Preface Introduction
- L. Mercier and J. Gier Part I The Indigenous, Colonial and Imperial Legacy Mining Women, Royal Slaves: Copper Mining in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780
- M. Diaz Making a Difference in Colonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Ghana: The Social and Political Activism of Two Women, 1874-1893
- K. Akurang-Parry Lifting the Layers of the Mountain's Petticoats: Mining and Gender in Potosi's Pachamama
- P. Absi Kamins Building the Empire: Class, Caste and Gender Interface in Indian Collieries
- K. Lahiri-Dutt Part II Engendered Bodies and the Masculinization of the Mining Industry: Separate Spheres and the Role of Women in the Mining Household and Community, 1800-1940 Sociability, Solidarity and Social Exclusion: Women's Activism in the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1830-1939
- R. Jones Gender Relations in Iron Mining Communities in Sweden, 1900-1940
- E. Blomberg Invisible Labor: A Comparative Oral History of Women in Coal Mining Communities of Hokkaido, Japan, and Montana, U.S.A., 1890-1940
- K. Yoshida and R. Miyauchi Economic Change and Women Miners of Chikuho, Japan
- S. Sone Part III Gender, Mining Communities, and Labor Protests, 1900-1960 'I'm a Johnny Mitchell Man': Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-1902
- B. Stepenoff Violence and the Colorado National Guard: Masculinity, Race, Class, and Identity in the 1913-14 Southern Colorado Coal Strike
- A. DeStefanis 'I Hate to Be Calling Her a Wife Now': Women and Men in the Salt of the Earth Strike, 1950-1952
- E. Baker Godless Communists and Faithful Wives, Gender Relations and the Cold War: Mine Mill and the 1958 Strike Against the International Nickel Company
- M. Steedman Part IV The Division of Mining Labor Revisited: Cultures of Solidarity, Deindustrialization, and the Globalized Economy, 1945-2005 Just a Housewife? Miners' Wives between Household and Work in Postwar Germany
- Y. Jung Women into Mining Jobs at Inco: Challenging the Gender Division of Labour
- J. Keck and M. Powell From Ludlow to Camp Solidarity: Women, Men, and Cultures of Solidarity in U.S. Coal Communities, 1912-1990
- C. Guerin-Gonzales Epilogue Mining Women Find a Voice: Working Class and Environmental Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
- J. Gier Bibliography Contributors Index
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