Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others

by Martha MacIntyre

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754646505
• ISBN13: 9780754646501
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"