Tracing the veins : of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata /

This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Finn, Janet L., 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Series:[NetLibrary]
Subjects:
Anaconda Company.
Copper industry and trade > Social aspects > Montana > Butte.
Copper industry and trade > Social aspects > Chile > Chuquicamata.
Cuivre > Industrie > Aspect social > Montana > Butte.
Cuivre > Industrie > Aspect social > Chili > Chuquicamata.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Copper industry and trade > Social aspects.
Industries.
Business & Economics.
Chile > Chuquicamata.
Montana > Butte.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
ISBN:9780520920071
0520920074
0585047847
9780585047843
9780520211360
0520211367
9780520211377
0520211375

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