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“Just Go to Work”: Gendered Harassment in Resource Extraction Work in Canada

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“Just Go to Work”: Gendered Harassment in Resource Extraction Work in Canada
Abstract
This Master’s thesis examines tradeswomen’s experiences of and responses to gendered harassment at camp-based work in resource extraction industries in western Canada. This study predominantly features women working in the Alberta oil sands industry. Gendered harassment at work has been identified as a major issue in recent years (Curtis et al., 2018; Denissen, 2010; Wade & Jones, 2019) and this study aims to better understand tradeswomen’s day-to-day experiences of harassment in work camps. I utilize constructivist grounded theory methodology and critical feminist geography as the theoretical framework for the project. I find that tradeswomen employ a wide range of affective, material, and social strategies to manage harassment. I introduce two concepts, “just go to work” (JGTW) and “me vs. other girls,” to illuminate these strategies for self-preservation in the masculine occupational culture of work. This is labour that tradeswomen must perform in addition to their demanding work duties and schedules. JGTW demonstrates how gendered harassment is embedded into the masculinist culture of work of the trades. This study begins to address this gap in scholarly literature to capture the shifting cultural context of the oil sands industry and identifies new areas for future research.
Type
M.A., Sociology
University
University of Alberta
Place
Edmonton, Alta.
Date
2020
# of Pages
145 pages
Language
en
Short Title
“Just Go to Work”
Accessed
11/18/21, 12:52 AM
Citation
Kelly, G. (2020). “Just Go to Work”: Gendered Harassment in Resource Extraction Work in Canada [M.A., Sociology, University of Alberta]. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-47tj-7p74