Mining coal and undermining gender :: rhythms of work and family in the American West /

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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1. Verfasser: Rolston, Jessica Smith, 1980-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813563695
0813563690

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