Tracing the veins : of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata / Janet L. Finn.

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Finn, Janet L, 1956-

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TextSeries: [NetLibrary]Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780520920071
0520920074
0585047847
9780585047843
9780520211360
0520211367
9780520211377
0520211375

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HD9539.C7 U539 1998eb

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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.

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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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