The Company Owns the Mine but They Don’t Own Us: Feminist Critiques of Capitalism in the Coalfields of Kentucky in the 1970s
This article examines women's involvement in the Brookside Mine strike of 1974, which captivated US audiences and provided women with an unprecedented public platform to challenge the class and gender system undergirding coalfield capitalism. During the strike, female kin of miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, started a club to support striking miners and their families and to organise picket lines; they were joined by women from across the region and country. With the strike as their foundation these women generated a women's movement that revealed the specific ways class and gender inequality shaped their lives, defined by the heavy-duty care work characteristic of the coalfields. This article argues that the Brookside women's support of striking miners was fundamentally about gendered class inequality: the denigration of working-class, female caregivers alongside the devaluing of men's labour. Using collective memory and individual experience as their interpretive devices, the Brookside women forged a class-conscious feminism. In it they exposed the traumas of coalfield capitalism, shone a light on women's unpaid care work (one of the foundations of corporate capitalism) and destabilised the gender and class hierarchies that defined coalfield communities.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12183
Erratum: Articles with wrong DOI numbers / Artikel mit falschen DOI-Nummern
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 327-328
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0017/znth-2016-0017.xml
Kant and the Meaning of Religion
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 297-299
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0008/znth-2016-0008.xml
Transnationale Dimensionen wissenschaftlicher Theologie
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 318-321
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0015/znth-2016-0015.xml
Margot Hahl berichtet Hannah Tillich über ihre Freundschaft mit Paulus. Ein Brief aus dem Dezember 1966
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 268-296
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0007/znth-2016-0007.xml
Religiöse Sucher in der Moderne. Konversionen vom Judentum zum Protestantismus in Wien um 1900
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 310-312
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0013/znth-2016-0013.xml
Bibliographie der Schriften Hermann Fischers (1933–2012). Auf der Grundlage von Aufzeichnungen Hermann Fischers bearbeitet und ergänzt
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 255-267
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0006/znth-2016-0006.xml
Late German Idealism. Trendelenburg & Lotze
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 304-307
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0011/znth-2016-0011.xml
Hermann Fischer (18. Mai 1933 – 11. Juni 2012). Ein Nachruf
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 250-254
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/znth.2015.22.issue-2/znth-2016-0005/znth-2016-0005.xml