Jessica Smith Rolston: 1 book
Mining Coal and Undermining Gender
Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
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...
