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1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Series |
Voices in Development Management |
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Voices in development management.
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| Contents |
Cover-Page; Women Miners in Developing Countries; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Where Life is in the Pits (and Elsewhere) and Gendered; The 'pit'?; Pit women; Mining and gendered constructions; Pit women as social subjects; And others; Mining in developing countries; Queens of coal and gold; The chapters in the book; References; PART I Reconstructing Gendered Histories of Mines; 1 Women Miners: Here and There, Now and Then; Introduction; Women as miners; Women at surface; Women in the mining community |
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The male minerWomen in small scale mining; References; 2 Japanese Coal Mining: Women Discovered; Introduction; The Japanese coal mining industry; Historical records of women miners; Characteristics of female labourers; Rationalization and the banning of female miners; Discharge of the female miners; Conclusion; References; 3 Race, Gender and the Tin Mining Industry in Malaya, 1900-1950; Introduction: Political and economic frameworks; The tin industry, 1850-1950; Race and gender in the mining labour systems; Labour control; Wage structures and payment; Gender and the mining sector |
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The dulang pass systemAdaptation and change; References; 4 Patriarchy, Colonialism and Capitalism: Unearthing the History of Adivasi; Introduction; Canvas Chotanagour; Crisis in Chotanagour; Situating wonen in the crisis; Colonialism and women miners; Post-colonial trends in wonen's marginalization; References; PART II Gender and Ethnic Identities in the Mines; 5 Digging through Layers of Class, Gender and Ethnicity: Korean Women Miners in Prewar Japan; Introduction; Japanese women and Korean men in the mines; Korean women's distinct occupational distribution; Heavy burden of housework |
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ConclusionReferences; 6 Women Working in the Mining Industry in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study from Lihir; Introduction; Lihir; The changing economic role of women?; Lihirian working women; Working women with post-secondary qualifications; References; 7 Traditional Small Scale Miners: Women Miners of the Philippines; Introduction; Historical and archaeological data; Ethnographic data; Lode miners; Placer mining; Processing; Smelting the gold; Sharing the ore and concentrate; Rituals; Events that affected the Kankana-ey; Conclusion; References; 8 Mining Gender; Introduction: Identity work |
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Theorizing gender identities in miningWomen in Indian collieries; Conversations with research participants; Excerpts; Conclusion; References; PART III Gender in the Mining Economies; 9 The Place of Women in Mining in the Cordillera Region, Philippines; Introduction; Mining in the Philippines; Women in the mining profession; Corporate large scale mines in the Cordillera and women's work; Women's work in small scale mining; Relationship between large scale mining corporations and small scale operations; Prospects for women in the mining sector; References |
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10 Women in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Africa |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala
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Grieco, Professor Margaret
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| ISBN |
9781351871938 |
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1351871935 |
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