My View From the Blackened Rocks: A Woman's Battle for Equality and Respect in Canada's Mining Industry SIGNED

Mulroy, Cathy

ISBN 10: 0228812038 / ISBN 13: 9780228812036

Published by Tellwell Talent, Canada, 2019

About this Item

493pp. with b/w illustrations, signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. Light creasing from page handling. Pictorial boards have light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 18.5 x 26.2 x 3.1cm, wt1.4KG Please note the book is oversized and it may require extra postage. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My View From the Blackened Rocks: A Woman's Battle for Equality and Respect in Canada's Mining Industry SIGNED
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent, Canada
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228812038
• ISBN 13: 9780228812036
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: VG
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

A daughter of a hard rock miner. Married at the age of sixteen. At nineteen, Cathy Mulroy was hired at mining giant Inco and became one of the first women to work there since the war years in a non-traditional job. In 1930, legislation stated it was too dangerous for women to do this work. The laws changed during the war years, but all 1400 women lost their jobs when the war ended, and women were no longer legally employable in mining operations. Laws changed again, and in 1974 Inco hired a few women. Cathy was one of them. The company didn't want them there. The men didn't want them there, and their wives certainly didn't, either. There were no laws protecting women in the workplace back then. Women working in mining operations endured sexual harassment, discrimination, sexual assault, and threats. This job was rough, but Cathy needed it to escape a toxic marriage. It wasn't easy. Through the years, she was labelled a "troublemaker" because she stood up for herself and fought back. She began to document everything that happened to her, writing notes on anything she could get her hands on and saving them. After thirty years she began to write her memoir to tell her story from her point of view, what it was like to be the only woman among dozens of men working at Inco, including the struggles of strikes, cutbacks, force adjustments, layoffs, accidents, and fatalities. It was never boring.