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

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. Díaz 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 Potosí'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 International Nickel Company; M. Steedman Part IV The Division of Mining Labor Revisited: Cultures of Solidarity, Deindustrialization, and the Globalized Economy, 1945-2005 Just a Housewife? Miners' Wives between Household and Work in Postwar Germany; Y. Jung Women into Mining Jobs at Inco: Challenging the Gender Division of Labour; J. Keck and M. Powell From Ludlow to Camp Solidarity: Women, Men, and Cultures of Solidarity in U.S. Coal Communities, 1912-1990; C. Guerin-Gonzales Epilogue Mining Women Find a Voice: Working Class and Environmental Feminism in the Twenty-First Century; J. Gier Bibliography Contributors Index