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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
Jessica Smith Rolston
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Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award from the Western Social Science Association
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 Jessica Smith Rolston, herself a onetime mine worker and the daughter of a miner, set out to discover. Her answers, based on years of participant-observation in four mines and extensive interviews with miners, managers, engineers, and the families of mine employees, offer ... Read more
Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award from the Western Social Science Association
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 Jessica Smith Rolston, herself a onetime mine worker and the daughter of a miner, set out to discover. Her answers, based on years of participant-observation in four mines and extensive interviews with miners, managers, engineers, and the families of mine employees, offer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813563688
SKU
V9780813563688
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About Jessica Smith Rolston
JESSICA SMITH ROLSTON is the Hennebach Assistant Professor of Energy Policy in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. An anthropologist by training, she also publishes on corporate social responsibility in extractive industries.
Reviews for Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
"This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism."
Janet L. Finn
author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960
"A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender ... Read more
Janet L. Finn
author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960
"A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender ... Read more