Mining Women Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005 [Hardcover]

This book explores gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world. It also explores the subject from multiple perspectives and links each of these not only to cultural and domestic arrangements but also to an emerging industrial and capitalist system from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth centuries.Table of Contents Preface Introduction; L. Mercier and J. Gier Part I The Indigenous, Colonial and Imperial Legacy Mining Women, Royal Slaves: Copper Mining in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780; M. D??az Making a Difference in Colonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Ghana: The Social and Political Activism of Two Women, 1874-1893; K. Akurang-Parry Lifting the Layers of the Mountain's Petticoats: Mining and Gender in Potos??'s Pachamama; P. Absi Kamins Building the Empire: Class, Caste and Gender Interface in Indian Collieries; K. Lahiri-Dutt Part II Engendered Bodies and the Masculinization of the Mining Industry: Separate Spheres and the Role of Women in the Mining Household and Community, 1800-1940 Sociability, Solidarity and Social Exclusion: Women's Activism in the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1830-1939; R. Jones Gender Relations in Iron Mining Communities in Sweden, 1900-1940; E. Blomberg Invisible Labor: A Comparative Oral History of Women in Coal Mining Communities of Hokkaido, Japan, and Montana, U.S.A., 1890-1940; K. Yoshida and R. Miyauchi Economic Change and Women Miners of Chikuho, Japan; S. Sone Part III Gender, Mining Communities, and Labor Protests, 1900-1960 'I'm a Johnny Mitchell Man': Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900-1902; B. Stepenoff Violence and the Colorado National Guard: Masculinity, Race, Class, and Identity in the 1913-14 Southern Colorado Coal Strike; A. DeStefanis 'I Hate to Be Calling Her a Wife Now': Women and Men in the Salt of the Earth Strike, 1950-1952; E. Baker Godless Communists and Faithful Wives, Gender Relations and the Cold War: Mine Mill and the 1958 Strike Against the lÌ