Mining Coal and Undermining Gender : : Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West /

Mining Coal and Undermining Gender : : Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West / / Jessica Smith Rolston.

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Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming's Powder River Basin-the largest coal-producing region in the United States. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Je...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Rolston, Jessica Smith,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.) :; 4 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Orientation
  • 1. Putting Kinship to Work
  • 2. Labor Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Part II. Putting in Time
  • 3. Shiftwork as Kinwork
  • 4. Interweaving Love and Labor
  • Part III. Undoing Gender at Work
  • 5. Tomboys and Softies
  • 6. Hard Work, Humor, and Harassment
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Mining Terms
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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