Mining women: gender in the development of a global industry, 1670 to the present

This book presents new essays that illuminate how gender identities and inequality have been constructed historically and sustained in what could be hailedas the first truly global enterprise and arguably the most 'masculine' of industries - mining. INDICE: Introduction; L.Mercier ; J.Gier - PART I: THE COLONIAL/IMPERIAL LEGACY REVISITED, 1700-2000 - Copper Mining in El Cobre: A Predominately FemaleIndustry in 17th Century Colonial Cuba; M.Elena Diaz - Making a Difference inColonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Ghana: The Social and Political Activism of Two Women, 1874-1893; K.Akurang-Parry - Women and Gender in the Bolivian Silver Mining Communities: The Colonial Legacy of Change; P.Absi - Women and Mining in Kenya: The Case of Mukibira Mines in Vihiga District: Twentieth Century Developments and Colonial Traditions; M.Lutta-Mukhebi ; M.Amutabi - Enacting Gender in Proletarian Internationalism: Solidarity and Its Discontents from the Mexican Revolution to the Spanish Civil War; C.Guerin-Gonzalez - PARTII: THE MINING HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY: GENDER, THE DIVISION OF LABOR, AND 'THE STRUGGLE,' 1830-1940 - Sociability, Solidarity, and Social Exclusion: Women's Activism in the Mining District of Wales, 1830-1930; R.Jones - 'I'm a Johnny Mitchell Man': Gender Roles and Labour Heroes in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-02; B.Stepenoff - Violence and the Colorado National Guard: Masculinity, Race, Class, and Identity in the 1913-1914 Southern Colorado Coal Strike; A.DeStefanis - Gender Relations in Iron Mining Communities in Sweden, 1860-1940; E.Blomberg - Invisible Labour: Comparative Oral History of Women in Coal Mining Communities of Hokkaido and Montana, 1890-1940; K.Yoshida ; R.Miyauchi - PART III: MINING IN THE WAKE OF WORLD WAR: REDEFINING THE DIVISION OF LABOR AND LABOR PROTEST, 1940-1970 - Economic Change and Women Miners of Chikuho, Japan, 1945-1970; S.Sone - Miners' Wives between Household and Work in Postwar Germany, 1945-1970; Y.Sook Jung - 'I Hate to Be Calling Her a Wife Now': Women and Men in the Empire Zinc Strike, 1950-1952; E.Baker - Godless Communistsand Faithful Wives, Gender Relations and the Cold War: Mine Mill and the Strike against the International Nickel Company, Sudbury, Canada, 1958; M.Steedman- PART IV: THE DIVISION OF MINING LABOUR REVISITED: STATE INTERVENTION IN A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY, 1970-2000 - Challenging the Gender Division of Labour: Women into Mining Jobs at Inco, 1970-1990; J.Keck - Women in the British Miner's Strike of 1984-85; M.Allen - Women's Political Movements against the State and Oil in Nigeria, 1980-2000; H.Turcotte - Epilogue: Generation and the Global Dimensions of Gender in Mining Protests, 1900-2000; J.Gier Selected BibliographyContributor Notes - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62104-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 15/08/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés