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Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others

Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others

Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala
MacIntyre, Martha

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Series: Voices in Development Management

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Gender StudiesGeography

ISBN10: 1138264407
ISBN13: 9781138264403
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 15 2016
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the developing world as compared to the early European and American mines. The book shows that women are engaged in various kinds of mining and illustrates how gender and inequality are constructed and sustained in the mines, and also how ethnic identities intersect with those gendered identities.

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