TY - CHAP
T1 - Women's Work and Lives in Offshore Oil
AU - Austin, Diane E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here was supported by several contracts between the Minerals Management Service (U.S. Department of the Interior) and the University of Arizona. Diane Austin served as principal investigator and Tom McGuire as co-principal investigator. I gratefully acknowledge our team members whose data and ideas contributed to the research study and this article. I appreciate also the helpful comments and suggestions of several anonymous reviewers. Our team owes tremendous thanks to Harry Luton and Rodney Cluck of the MMS, who encouraged and supported us throughout the study, and to residents and leaders of New Iberia and Morgan City, Louisiana, who welcomed and participated in this study and ensured its success. Special thanks go to the women throughout southern Louisiana and east Texas who gave countless hours of their time, shared their homes and stories, and made this study possible.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Despite being the standard against which all other offshore work sites are compared, the male-dominated work culture of the Gulf of Mexico has received little attention from social scientists. Drawing on the literature on women and work in the United States, on women in the U.S. South, in the military, and in the oil field, and on interviews with hundreds of individuals this paper explores the roles of women in the development and maintenance of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana.
AB - Despite being the standard against which all other offshore work sites are compared, the male-dominated work culture of the Gulf of Mexico has received little attention from social scientists. Drawing on the literature on women and work in the United States, on women in the U.S. South, in the military, and in the oil field, and on interviews with hundreds of individuals this paper explores the roles of women in the development and maintenance of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0190-1281(05)24006-4
DO - 10.1016/S0190-1281(05)24006-4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:33645904470
SN - 0762312254
SN - 9780762312252
T3 - Research in Economic Anthropology
SP - 163
EP - 204
BT - Markets and Market Liberalization
A2 - Dannhaeuser, Norbert
A2 - Werner, Cynthia
ER -