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Author Rolston, Jessica Smith, 1980-

Title Mining coal and undermining gender : rhythms of work and family in the American West / Jessica Smith Rolston
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Contents Part I. Orientation -- part II. Putting in time -- part III. Undoing gender at work
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women coal miners -- Wyoming
Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Wyoming
Sex role.
Work and family.
sex role.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects
Sex role
Women coal miners
Work and family
Gender roles
Wyoming
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813563695
0813563690