Daughters of the Mountain : Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia /

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Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern We...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tallichet, Suzanne E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women coal miners.
Sex discrimination against women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Discrimination à l'egard des femmes > Virginie-Occidentale.
Mineuses de charbon > Virginie-Occidentale.
Sex discrimination against women > West Virginia.
Women coal miners > West Virginia.
West Virginia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Digging in : coping with sexualized work relations
  • From red cap to coal miner : adaptation and advancement underground
  • Ours in solidarity : women miners and the UMWA
  • Over the long haul : accommodation and resistance to the culture of coal mining
  • Epilogue.

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