Anne Balay oral histories with steel workers, 2009 - 2011.
Collection Number: 7787
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Anne Balay oral histories with steel workers, 2009 - 2011.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7787
Abstract:
Transcripts of 38 interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender steel workers from
Northwest Indiana and Ontario, Canada.
Creator:
Balay, Anne
Quanitities:
.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Balay conducted oral history interviews with forty lesbian, gay, and transgender steel
workers and subsequently wrote the 2014 book "Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian,
and Transgender Steelworkers." Thirty-five steel workers live in Northwest Indiana.
Five live in Ontario, Cananda. Four are transgender: one FTM (female to male) and
three MTF (male to female).
Transcripts of 38 interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender steel workers from
Northwest Indiana and Ontario, Canada. Identifying information of the individual steel
workers has been deleted, and may be made available in 2114. Balay asigned pseudonyms.
Topics covered in the interviews include workplace hazards, occupational related cancer,
alcoholism, masculinity, homophobia in the workplace, and how these individuals negotiate
their lives in conditions quite hostile to transgender people and homosexuals.
Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.
Until January 2064, transcripts may not be digitized, reproduced, or made available
electronically. Researchers may view them and take notes, but are not allowed to make
reproductions, digital or otherwise. Researchers are not allowed to bring a digital
camera into the reading room.
Researchers may not digitize or otherwise reproduce the files until January 2039.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Anne Balay oral histories with steel workers, #7787. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Transgender people -- Employment.
Transgender people -- Alcohol use.
Masculinity.
Iron and steel workers -- Ontario -- Canada.
Iron and steel workers -- Indiana -- United States.
Iron and steel workers -- Diseases.
Homophobia.
Butch and femme (Lesbian culture).
Gays -- Employment.
Gays -- Alcohol use.
Blue collar workers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Interviews.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Andy, Ben, Chris, Dave, Erin, Fern
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Gail, Harriet, Isabel, Jay, Keith, Lakisha
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Miles, Nate, Oxana, Phil, Quentin, Renne
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Scott, Tommy, Undine, Victor, Wanda, Xena, Yesenia, Zach
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Athena, Bernard, Danielle, Elise, Fred, Hugo
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n.d |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Ian, Kate, Larry/Lisa, Marie
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n.d. |