Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chapter 4
rotating shift work = hard on family life
p. 95
but families intertwined with/by mining labor
again miners wives end up taking on more burdens to keep family running (social
reproduction womens unpaid labor subsidizes capitalist economy)
time is central to the creation of kinship ties"
Chapter 6 - Harassment or Joking
Chapter 7 - Decline of Coal
Whats the goal?
Denaturalizing the masculinity of mine labor, affirms that the cultural link
between masculinity and mining is not inevitable or natural"
assert that the Powder River Basin miners are key art of an industry that is
crucial to the everyday functioning of everyday life in the United States (31)
Miners know the network, consumers dont cals for caring from a distance"
agains commodity fetishism: we know the lightbulb and the cost of electricity; we
dont then about the mine or miners relation ship to us through the lightbulb (32)
Dont romanticize or demonize them
Final Paper
Intro
What the paper is about
What point are you trying to make
How it links up with the outside academic literature
How you lay out the argument and evidence
Methods
Section 1
Point
Evidence
Section 2
Section 3
Conclusion
What I learned and how it relates to what others have said about this
What implications does all this have for post-carbon futures, global
warming, fossil fuel independence
What to focus on?
Gathering evidence
Original work
Empirical data