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100 1 _aGiesen, Carol A. B.,
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245 1 0 _aCoal miners' wives
_bportraits of endurance /
_cCarol A.B. Giesen.
260 _aLexington :
_bThe University Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)2015.
300 _a1 online resource (194 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Raising Consciousness: An Overview; 2 Traditional Views: The Backgrounds of Their Lives; 3 Unseen Dangers: The Perils of Mining; 4 Living Day by Day: Women's Work and Widowhood; 5 Coping: Work, Faith, and Denial; 6 Today and Tomorrow: Company Issues and Personal Issues; Appendix A Personal Portraits; Appendix B Other Women, Other Occupations; Appendix C Research Methods and Findings; Appendix D The Interview Schedule; References; Index.
520 0 _aFew people in America today live with the dangers and deprivations that Appalachian coal mining families experience. But to the eighteen West Virginia women Carol Giesen interviewed for this book, hard times are just everyday life. These coal miners' wives, ranging in age from late teens to eighty-five, tell of a way of life dominated by coal mining --
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650 0 _aCoal miners' spouses
_zWest Virginia.
650 0 _aWomen
_zWest Virginia
_xSocial conditions.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938242&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell