Worker Once Known

Thinking with Disposable, Discarded, Mislabeled, and Precariously Employed Laborers in History of Science

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3284366
AutoresGabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University Press, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen114
Número4
Páginas834-840
Fecha de publicación2023-12-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIsis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/727760
OpenAlexW4389775640
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas8

How do we reevaluate the role of individuals whose contributions have not been erased—they are still visible—but whose labor has been demoted in the historical narrative because of their gender, class, or ethnicity? This brief essay is about more than simply bringing in overlooked actors; instead, it ponders why the act of mislabeling a person's labor merits further deliberation. Mislabeled archival evidence, such as the erroneous description accompanying a photograph that this essay discusses, might uphold problematic assumptions in the history of science about who can perform certain labors. Such mistakes, careless or otherwise, produce enduring historiographic harm because such errors make it harder to construct other versions of the past

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