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WOMEN MINERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
PIT WOMEN AND OTHERS |
| By: |
Ms. Martha Macintyre, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Editor), Professor Margaret Grieco |
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Hardback |
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£150.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754646505 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754646501 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 April, 2006 |
| Series: |
Voices in Development Management |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Includes 17 b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
| Returns: |
Returnable |