Mining coal and undermining gender : rhythms of work and family in the American West /

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Among the miners of Wyoming's Powder River Basin-the largest coal-producing region in the U.S.-anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston reveals how the mining industry, though heavily masculinized, generates new configurations of the "working family"--A kind of kinship based on the shared...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rolston, Jessica Smith, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Women coal miners > Wyoming.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Wyoming.
Sex role.
Work and family.
Mineuses de charbon > Wyoming.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Aspect social > Wyoming.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Travail et familles.
sex role.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects
Sex role
Women coal miners
Work and family
Gender roles
Wyoming
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Among the miners of Wyoming's Powder River Basin-the largest coal-producing region in the U.S.-anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston reveals how the mining industry, though heavily masculinized, generates new configurations of the "working family"--A kind of kinship based on the shared burdens of shift work and concerns for safety, which challenges and reproduces gender differences in everyday working and family life
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813563695
0813563690

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