Introduction: Where life is in the pits (and elsewhere) and gendered

Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-22

  Lahiri Dutt, Kuntala ^a   Macintyre, Martha ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 85082470359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315233734-1     Document Type: Editorial

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