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

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-20
Mining Women, Royal Slaves: Copper Mining in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780....Pages 21-39
Making a Difference in Colonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Wassa Fiase, Gold Coast (Ghana): The Activism of Two Women, 1874–1893....Pages 40-57
Lifting the Layers of the Mountain’s Petticoats: Mining and Gender in Potosí’s Pachamama....Pages 58-70
Kamins Building the Empire: Class, Caste, and Gender Interface in Indian Collieries....Pages 71-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-95
Sociability, Solidarity, and Social Exclusion: Women’s Activism in the South Wales Coalfield, ca. 1830 to 1939....Pages 96-118
Gender Relations in Iron Mining Communities in Sweden, 1900–1940....Pages 119-135
Invisible Labor: A Comparative Oral History of Women in Coal Mining Communities of Hokkaido, Japan, and Montana, USA, 1890–1940....Pages 136-152
Coal Mining Women Speak Out: Economic Change and Women Miners of Chikuho, Japan....Pages 153-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-180
“I’m a Johnny Mitchell Man”: Gender and Labor Protest in the Pennsylvania Hard Coal Uprising, 1900–1902....Pages 181-194
Violence and the Colorado National Guard: Masculinity, Race, Class, and Identity in the 1913–1914 Southern Colorado Coal Strike....Pages 195-212
“I Hate to Be Calling Her a Wife Now”: Women and Men in the Salt of the Earth Strike, 1950–1952....Pages 213-232
Godless Communists and Faithful Wives, Gender Relations and the Cold War: Mine Mill and the 1958 Strike against the International Nickel Company....Pages 233-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-261
Just a Housewife? Miners’ Wives between Household and Work in Postwar Germany....Pages 262-279
Women into Mining Jobs at Inco: Challenging the Gender Division of Labor....Pages 280-295
From Ludlow to Camp Solidarity: Women, Men, and Cultures of Solidarity in U.S. Coal Communities, 1912–1990....Pages 296-324
Epilogue....Pages 325-334
Back Matter....Pages 335-355