Gender struggle, scale, and the production of place in the Appalachian coalfields

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1045-1064

  Miewald, Christiana E ^a   McCann, Eugene J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL MINING; EMPLOYMENT; GENDER ROLE; LABOR MARKET;

KENTUCKY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942682797     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a35230     Document Type: Article

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