Home Environment And Employment Opportunities Of Women In Coal Mine Workers Families

Author : United States. Women's Bureau
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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Home Environment and Employment Opportunities of Women in Coal- Mine Workers' Families written by United States. Women's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1220 pages
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Download or read book The Elevator Constructor written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bertha Marie von der Nienburg
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Total Pages : 1386 pages
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Download or read book Women in Mississippi Industries written by Bertha Marie von der Nienburg and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin (United States. Women's Bureau). no. 43-46, 1926 written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica Smith Rolston
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813563690
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining Coal and Undermining Gender written by Jessica Smith Rolston and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 1204 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence Patterson Smith
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Total Pages : 1138 pages
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Download or read book Summary, the Effects of Labor Legislation on the Employment Opportunities of Women written by Florence Patterson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074582
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.

Author : Emily Clark Brown
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Industrial Home Work written by Emily Clark Brown and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Women Workers and Their Dependents written by Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: