Semi Queer (eBook)

Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers

Anne Balay (Autor)

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2018
232 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469647104 (ISBN)

Infos

Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives behind the wheel. A licensed commercial truck driver herself, Balay discovers that, for people routinely subjected to prejudice, hatred, and violence in their hometowns and in the job market, trucking can provide an opportunity for safety, welcome isolation, and a chance to be themselves--even as the low-wage work is fraught with tightening regulations, constant surveillance, danger, and exploitation. The narratives of minority and queer truckers underscore the working-class struggle to earn a living while preserving one's safety, dignity, and selfhood. Through the voices of drivers from marginalized communities who spend eleven- to fourteen-hour days hauling America's commodities in treacherous weather and across mountain passes, Semi Queer reveals the stark differences between the trucking industry's crushing labor practices and the perseverance of its most at-risk workers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 2 drawings, 25 halftones, appends., bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African American workers • attitudes about working-class • attitudes about working-class Americans • attitudes of working-class Americans • deregulation in the American trucking industry • electronic monitoring in the workplace • employment options for transgender Americans • gay blue-collar workers • gay men and lesbians in the workplace • historical changes in the American trucking industry • impacts of trucking on workers’ physical and mental health • Islamophobia in the trucking industry • minorities in trucking • poverty in 21st Century America • race and gender as predictors of employment choice and success • race and racism in American industrial work settings • safety and risk in blue-collar jobs • sexual assault in the workplace • sexual encounters at work • the interstate highway system • transgender workers • women in blue-collar industries • working-class people’s attitudes about immigration • working conditions for lesbians • workplace surveillance technologies • Workplace Violence
• ISBN-13: 9781469647104 / 9781469647104