The Politics of Pits and the Materiality of Mine Labor: Making Natural Resources in the American West

American Anthropologist

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 582-594

  Rolston, Jessica Smith ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporaciones; Corporations; Labor; Materialidad; Materiality; Miner a; Mining; Oeste Americano; The American West; Trabajo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888054324     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aman.12050     Document Type: Article

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