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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rolston, Jessica Smith, 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Work and family.
Women coal miners.
Sex role.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
sex role.
Travail et familles.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Aspect social > Wyoming.
Mineuses de charbon > Wyoming.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Wyoming.
Women coal miners > Wyoming.
Wyoming.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780813563695

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