Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata

摘要: This tale of two cities--Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile--traces the relationship capitalism community across cultural, national, geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how development copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions community, class, gender widely separated but intimately related sites. While rich veins Rockies Andes flowed for giant Anaconda Company, miners their families both places struggled to make a life as well living themselves. Miner's consumption, popular name silicosis, provides powerful metaphor danger, wasting, loss that penetrated life. explores themes privation privilege, trust betrayal, offers new model studies links local culture global capitalism.