Mining Coal And Undermining Gender
DOWNLOAD
Download Mining Coal And Undermining Gender PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Mining Coal And Undermining Gender book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Mining Coal And Undermining Gender
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jessica Smith Rolston
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Mining Coal And Undermining Gender written by Jessica Smith Rolston and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Social Science categories.
Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin—the largest coal-producing region in the United States. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston, herself a onetime mine worker and the daughter of a miner, set out to discover. Her answers, based on years of participant-observation in four mines and extensive interviews with miners, managers, engineers, and the families of mine employees, offer a rich and surprising view of the working “families” that miners construct. In this picture, gender roles are not nearly as straightforward—or as straitened—as stereotypes suggest. Gender is far from the primary concern of coworkers in crews. Far more important, Rolston finds, is protecting the safety of the entire crew and finding a way to treat each other well despite the stresses of their jobs. These miners share the burden of rotating shift work—continually switching between twelve-hour day and night shifts—which deprives them of the daily rhythms of a typical home, from morning breakfasts to bedtime stories. Rolston identifies the mine workers’ response to these shared challenges as a new sort of constructed kinship that both challenges and reproduces gender roles in their everyday working and family lives. Crews’ expectations for coworkers to treat one another like family and to adopt an “agricultural” work ethic tend to minimize gender differences. And yet, these differences remain tenacious in the equation of masculinity with technical expertise, and of femininity with household responsibilities. For Rolston, such lingering areas of inequality highlight the importance of structural constraints that flout a common impulse among men and women to neutralize the significance of gender, at home and in the workplace. At a time when the Appalachian region continues to dominate discussion of mining culture, this book provides a very different and unexpected view—of how miners live and work together, and of how their lives and work reconfigure ideas of gender and kinship.
Violence Of Work
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jeremy Milloy
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Violence Of Work written by Jeremy Milloy and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Business & Economics categories.
The Violence of Work demonstrates that violence has always been an important part of work under capitalism. The editors explore workplace violence in a diverse range of North American workplaces from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century.
Making Sense Of Mining History
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stefan Berger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Making Sense Of Mining History written by Stefan Berger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with History categories.
This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.
Understanding Extractivism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Anna J. Willow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-27
Understanding Extractivism written by Anna J. Willow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-27 with Social Science categories.
Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture and power inform recent and ongoing disputes between projects’ proponents and opponents, beneficiaries and victims. Through a series of engaging case studies, she argues that diverse contemporary natural resource conflicts are underlain by a culturally constituted ‘extractivist’ mind-set and embedded in global patterns of political inequity. Offering a synthesizing framework for making sense of complex interconnections among environmental, social, and political dimensions of natural resource disputes, Willow reflects on why extractivism exists, why it matters, and what we might be able to do about it. The book is valuable reading for students and researchers in the environmental social sciences as well as for activists and practitioners.
Mining The Heartland
DOWNLOAD
Author : Erik Kojola
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-06-06
Mining The Heartland written by Erik Kojola and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with Business & Economics categories.
"As conflicts over resource extraction erupt across the world, a dive into one such fight in Minnesota reveals how these are cultural and political struggles about place, identity, and collective memory that complicate economy versus environment narratives and are tied to broader class and rural-urban divisions, and resurgent right-wing populism"--
Coal S Final Void
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kari Dahlgren
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-02-25
Coal S Final Void written by Kari Dahlgren and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-25 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the continuation of coal mining in Australia despite growing awareness of its contribution to the climate crisis. Through an in-depth ethnographic study, Kari Dahlgren reveals the complex and often contradictory ways that miners, lobbyists, and communities navigate the uncertain future of coal. By focusing on the human stories behind this industry, the book sheds light on broader environmental, political, and social issues of global significance. Dahlgren’s research spans multiple Australian coal communities, primarily in Moranbah, Queensland, and the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. She offers insights into the daily decisions and ethical considerations of coal miners and lobbyists that sustain the industry in the face of climate change. The book addresses diverse topics, such as labour precarity, gender roles, populist politics, and the moral accusations faced by pro-coal advocates, connecting these themes to the broader social and political challenges of Australia’s energy transition. Central to the book are the “final voids” left by mining—both physical and metonymic holes left in the aftermath of mining. These voids represent the emptied livelihoods of those entangled in the coal industry, as they grapple with the uncertainty of what comes next. The book explores how communities, lobbyists, and miners attempt to imagine and fill these voids with hopeful but often impractical visions, avoiding a reckoning with the industry's destructive legacy. This struggle highlights the deep entanglement of labour and ecological precarity in sustaining the climate crisis, offering fresh insights for scholars in anthropology, human geography, and energy policy. This book is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and activists engaged in climate and energy debates, as well as anyone interested in the complex human dimensions of the energy transition.
New Energies
DOWNLOAD
Author : Stephen G. Gross
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2023-02-28
New Energies written by Stephen G. Gross and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with History categories.
Over the past 250 years, energy transitions have occurred repeatedly—the rise of coal in the nineteenth century, the explosion of oil in the twentieth century, the nuclear utopianism of the 1950s and 1960s. These transitions have been as revolutionary as any political or economic upheaval, and they required changes in infrastructure and behavior. Yet new energies never wholly replace old ones. This volume historicizes energy production and consumption while demonstrating how energy use has reshaped everything from social life and economic organization to political governance. It foregrounds the importance of energy for big historical questions about capitalism, democracy, inequality, the environment, and identity, and it argues that energy systems themselves merit attention as key agents of historical change. Given the urgency of climate change, and the central position that energy plays in causing and potentially solving global warming, this volume engages history as a discipline in the debate over what may be most monumental energy transition of all time: the shift away from fossil fuels.
The City That Ate Itself
DOWNLOAD
Author : Brian James Leech
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2018-02-28
The City That Ate Itself written by Brian James Leech and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.
The Global Life Of Mines
DOWNLOAD
Author : Antonio Maria Pusceddu
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2024-07-01
The Global Life Of Mines written by Antonio Maria Pusceddu and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape. The book brings together scholars from various fields, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and political science, examining ethnographic case studies throughout the Americas (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, USA), Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Europe (Italy, Arctic Norway and Spain).
The Routledge Companion To Environmental Ethics
DOWNLOAD
Author : Benjamin Hale
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-29
The Routledge Companion To Environmental Ethics written by Benjamin Hale and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-29 with Philosophy categories.
Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches to the ethics of the environment, the Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues. Its 65 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, have been organized into the following eleven parts: I. Animals II. Land III. Water IV. Climate V. Energy and Extraction VI. Cities VII. Agriculture VIII. Environmental Transformation IX. Policy Frameworks and Response Measures X. Regulatory Tools XI. Advocacy and Activism The volume not only explains the nuances of important core philosophical positions, but also cuts new pathways for the integration of important ethical and policy issues into environmental philosophy. It will be of immense help to undergraduate students and other readers coming up to the field for the first time, but also serve as a valuable resource for more advanced students as well as researchers who need a trusted resource that also offers fresh, policy-centered approaches.