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Statistics reported in this well-researched study reveal the grim reality of daily life for coal-mining families in Appalachia. Between 1897 and 1939, nearly every day a West Virginia mining family lost a member to the mines (346 deaths per year), while dozens of men suffered injuries daily. Despite modern safety procedures and technological advances that lowered that astounding death rate to an average 22 deaths per year between 1981 and 1986, mining is still dangerous work, with cave-ins, explosions and toxic gases ever-present hazards. To find out how families deal with the stresses and strains of constant danger, Giesen, human development professor at St. Mary's college in Maryland, interviewed 18 coal miners' wives, ranging in age from late teens to the early 80s. Eschewing melodramatic anecdotes and making good use of face-to-face conversations, the author balances the interviewees' recollections of personal experiences with her own insights into the social and economic pressures of the coal-mining industry. In their own words, the women relate their domestic concerns and how they try to shield their husbands from household problems. They describe their fears of job hazards and tell how they cope with stress of strikes, layoffs, mine closings and companies that place more emphasis on profit than on safety. In this study, Giesen provides an absorbing portrait of the hard impact of one industry on real women's lives.
Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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"Reveals the extreme danger coal miners face in the workplace and the stress that mining families face because of it." -- Kirkus Reviews
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This review is from: Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance (Paperback)
"Portraits" indeed. There was not one portrait, either photographic or drawn. What a disappointment.I will look elsewhere next time.
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More shots of women, please,
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This review is from: Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance (Paperback)
A fascinating book if you are interested in the daily psychological pressure faced by the wives and mothers of Virginian mining communities.Marginally less interesting if, like me, you were expecting to see grainy shots of dirty, topless women strip mining in their bedrooms.
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It's midmorning when the sirens sound, but in minutes people are gathering outside the tall wire fence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many mining families, direct coping strategies, other miners, black lung, mining family, rotating shifts, coping methods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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It's midmorning when the sirens sound, but in minutes people are gathering outside the tall wire fence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many mining families, direct coping strategies, other miners, black lung, mining family, rotating shifts, coping methods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Virginia, Earl Dotter, John Costello of the Philadelphia Inquirer New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Stress And The Family: Coping With Normative Transitions (Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series) by Hamilton I McCubbin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Children of Crisis by Robert Coles in Back Matter
- Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by John Van Maanen in Back Matter
- The Not So Solid South: Anthropological Studies in a Regional Subculture (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings) by John Kenneth Morland in Back Matter
- Women and Social Protest by Guida West in Back Matter
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- Extracting Appalachia: Images Of Consolidation Coal Company by Geoffrey L. Buckley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Whistlin' and Crowin' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College (Studies in Writing & Rhetoric) by Associate Professor Katherine Kelleher Sohn on page 71, and Back Matter
- Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster by Alan Derickson in Back Matter
- Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art Literature, and Film by William B. Thesing in Back Matter
- Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society) by Suzanne E. Tallichet in Back Matter
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