Breaking published : Women&Gender in Mines

"Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History" in the International Review of Social History The image people in the global North have of mining labour is largely based on the European coal mines of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. We tend to think of mining labour as a typically male occupation, with masculine working cultures of a distant past. What this common perception of mining labour overlooks, is that in the production of just about every modern in..