Coal Miners' Wives : Portraits of Endurance /

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Few people in America today live with the dangers and deprivations that Appalachian coal mining families experience. But to the eighteen West Virginia women Carol Giesen interviewed for this book, hard times are just everyday life. These coal miners' wives, ranging in age from late teens to eig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giesen, Carol A. B., 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Coal miners' spouses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Femmes > Virginie-Occidentale > Conditions sociales.
Mineurs de charbon > Conjoints > Virginie-Occidentale.
Women > West Virginia > Social conditions.
Coal miners' spouses > West Virginia.
West Virginia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Raising Consciousness: An Overview; 2 Traditional Views: The Backgrounds of Their Lives; 3 Unseen Dangers: The Perils of Mining; 4 Living Day by Day: Women's Work and Widowhood; 5 Coping: Work, Faith, and Denial; 6 Today and Tomorrow: Company Issues and Personal Issues; Appendix A Personal Portraits; Appendix B Other Women, Other Occupations; Appendix C Research Methods and Findings; Appendix D The Interview Schedule; References; Index.

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