Women miners in developing countries : Pit women and others / edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Martha Macintyre.

Introduction: Where life is in the pits and gendered
The 'pit'?
Pit women
Mining and gendered constructions
Pit women as social subjects
And others
Mining in developing countries
etc.

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
The male miner
etc.

2. Japanese coal mining: Women dis covered
Introduction
The Japanese coal mining industry
Historical records of women miners
Characteristics of female labourers
etc.

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
etc.

4. Patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism: Unearthing the history of Adivasi women miners of Chotanagpur
Introduction
Canvas Chotanagpur
Crisis in Chotanagpur
Situating women in the crisis
Colonialism
etc.

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
etc.

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
etc.

7. Traditional small scale miners: Women miners of the Philippines
Introduction
Historical and archaeological data
Ethnographic data
Lode miners
Placer mining
Processing
etc.

8. Mining gender at work in the Indian Collieries: Identity construction by Kamins
Introduction: Identity work
Theorizing gender identities in mining
Women in Indian collieries
Conversations with research participants
etc.

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
etc.

10. Women in Artisanal and small scale mining in Africa
Introduction
Women miners in Africa
Health and wellbeing of women miners
Age, sex and constitutional factors
etc.

11. Women in the mining industry of contemporary China
Introduction
Women at work in contemporary China
Employment in mining and quarrying and its change
Women's work in the mines
Conclusion

12. Women in small scale gold mining in Papua New guinea
Introduction
A brief overview of the small scale sector
Role of women in SSM
What can be done in assisting women in SSM in PNG

13. The invisible work of women in small scale m9ines of Bolivia
Introduction: The mining industry in Bolivia
Who are the women mineworkers in Bolivia?
Child labor
Housing: Mine camps
Equal rights, is that possible?
etc.

PART IV: Global processes, local resistances
14. Gendered labour in Peripheral Tropical Frontiers: Women, mining and capital accumulation in post-development Amazonia
Introduction
Gendered labour in peripheral mining regions: Analytical propositions
Women's labour in gold mining in post-development Amazonia Garimpagem and women's labour: property, labour and production arrangements
etc.

15. Women miners, human rights and poverty
Introduction: Women's rights as human rights
The barriers to realizing women's rights
The large scale mining companies and feminization of poverty
Human rights duties of mining companies
etc.

16. Roti do, ya goli do! ( Give us bread, or give us bullets!): Stories of struggles of women workers in Bhowra Colliery, India
Introduction
Methodology
Bhowra colliery
The good old days
etc.

17. Globalization and women's work in the mine pits in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Introduction: Global mines, local lives
The research process
Globalization and women's labour in the mines
Women employees in KPC
etc.

Index : p. 371 - 378