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

by Mercier, Laurie; Gier, Jaclyn

• ISBN13: 9781403967626
• ISBN10: 1403967628
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents new essays that illuminate how gender identities and inequality have been constructed historically and sustained in what could be hailed as the first truly global enterprise and arguably the most "masculine" of industries--mining. These essays investigate not only gender's role in mining communities around the world, but also its impact on the emerging industrial and capitalist system from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Author Biography

Jaclyn Gier is Director of European Studies and Associate Professor of History in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Laurie Mercier is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I The Indigenous, Colonial, and Imperial Legacy	11	(78)
Mining Women, Royal Slaves: Copper Mining in Colonial Cuba, 1670--1780	21	(19)
Maria Elena Diaz
Making a Difference in Colonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Wassa Fiase, Gold Coast (Ghana): The Activism of Two Women, 1874--1893	40	(18)
Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry
Lifting the Layers of the Mountain's Petticoats: Mining and Gender in Potosi's Pachamama	58	(13)
Pascale Absi
Kamins Building the Empire: Class, Caste, and Gender Interface in Indian Collieries	71	(18)
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Part II Engendered Bodies and the Masculinization of the Mining Industry: Separate Spheres and the Role of Women in Mining, the Mining Household, and Community, 1800--1940	89	(82)
Sociability, Solidarity, and Social Exclusion: Women's Activism in the South Wales Coalfield, ca. 1830 to 1939	96	(23)
Rosemary Jones
Gender Relations in Iron Mining Communities in Sweden, 1900--1940	119	(17)
Eva Blomberg
Invisible Labor: A Comparative Oral History of Women in Coal Mining Communities of Hokkaido, Japan, and Montana, USA, 1890--1940	136	(17)
Kavoko Yoshida
Reiko Mivauchi
Coal Mining Women Speak Out: Economic Change and Women Miners of Chikuho, Japan	153	(18)
Sachiko Sone
Part III Gender, Mining Communities, and Labor Protests, 1900--1960	171	(84)
``I'm a Johnny Mitchell Man'': Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900--1902	181	(14)
Bonnie Stepenoff
Violence and the Colorado National Guard: Masculinity, Race, Class, and Identity in the 1913--1914 Southern Colorado Coal Strike	195	(18)
Anthony DeStefanis
``I Hate to Be Calling Her a Wife Now'': Women and Men in the Salt of the Earth Strike, 1950--1952	213	(20)
Ellen Baker
Godless Communists and Faithful Wives, Gender Relations and the Cold War: Mine Mill and the 1958 Strike against the International Nickel Company	233	(22)
Mercedes Steedman
Part IV The Division of Mining Labor Revisited: Cultures of Solidarity, Deindustrialization, and the Globalized Economy, 1945--2005	255	(70)
Just a Housewife? Miners' Wives between Household and Work in Postwar Germany	262	(18)
Yong-Sook Jung
Women into Mining Jobs at Inco: Challenging the Gender Division of Labor	280	(16)
Jennifer Keck
Mary Powell
From Ludlow to Camp Solidarity: Women, Men, and Cultures of Solidarity in U.S. Coal Communities, 1912--1990	296	(29)
Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Epilogue Mining Women Find a Voice: Working Class and Environmental Feminism in the Twenty-First Century	325	(10)
Jaclyn J. Gier
Bibliography	335	(10)
Contributors	345	(4)
Index	349

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