Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction

The role of women as mineworkers and as household workers has been erased. Here, we challenge the masculinity associated with the mines, taking a longer-term and a global labour history perspective. We foreground the importance of women as mineworkers in different parts of the world since the early...

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Vydáno v:	International review of social history Ročník 65; číslo 2; s. 191 - 230
Hlavní autoři:	Romano, Rossana Barragán, Papastefanaki, Leda
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2020
Témata:	18th century 19th century 20th century Automation Children Coal Coal industry Coal mining Developing countries Division of labor Early modern period Families & family life Female roles Females Gender Gold Historiography Households Housework Ideology Industrial Revolution Informal economy Labor history LDCs Masculinity Mechanization Minerals Miners Mines Mining industry Mothers Silver Silver mines Social history Special Theme: Women and Gender in Mining: Challenging Masculinity through History Topic and comment Wives Women Brazil Colombia Europe
ISSN:	0020-8590, 1469-512X
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Shrnutí:	The role of women as mineworkers and as household workers has been erased. Here, we challenge the masculinity associated with the mines, taking a longer-term and a global labour history perspective. We foreground the importance of women as mineworkers in different parts of the world since the early modern period and analyse the changes introduced in coal mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the masculinization and mechanization, and the growing importance of women in contemporary artisanal and small-scale mining. The effect of protective laws and the exclusion of women from underground tasks was to restrict women's work more to the household, which played a pivotal role in mining communities but is insufficiently recognized. This process of “de-labourization” of women's work was closely connected with the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. This introductory article therefore centres on the important work carried out in the household by women and children. Finally, we present the three articles in this Special Theme and discuss how each of them is in dialogue with the topics addressed here. Many thanks also to Marie-José Spreeuwenberg for her invaluable engagement.
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ISSN:	0020-8590 1469-512X
DOI:	10.1017/S0020859019000774