Tracing the veins : of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata /
This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | [NetLibrary]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=6905 |
| Summary: | This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520920071 0520920074 0585047847 9780585047843 9780520211360 0520211367 9780520211377 0520211375 |