Abstract

CHAMBILLA MAMANI¹, Beatriz. Women miners and itinerant mining work in the Chorolque Cooperative. Tinkazos [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.39, pp.81-91. ISSN 1990-7451.

This article analyses the "itinerant mining work" performed by women in the Chorolqu* Cooperative. Until a few years ago, women were banned from working inside the mine, but nov it is a common practice. For different reasons, women miners move from working inside th< mine to the surface, or vice versa. Based on these shifts in the location of their work, they buik dynamics that differentiate them from their male peers.

Keywords : women miners; women workers; economic inequality; social exclusión Chorolque Mining Cooperative.

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