Mining Women Gender in the Development of a

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.

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.

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

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