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Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 312 pages, height x width: 235x156 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691205957
  • ISBN-13: 9780691205953
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 312 pages, height x width: 235x156 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691205957
  • ISBN-13: 9780691205953
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"Historians have noted that gay identity is central to the history of capitalism, but because of an assumption that workplaces were "straight spaces" in which queer people passed, historians of sexuality have had almost nothing to say about work, insteaddirecting their attention to the street and to the bar. This book presents employment and the accompanying fear of job loss as one of the most salient features of queer life for most of the twentieth century, and looks at the political and legal developments of gay labor in the workplace, alongside the histories of women's, minorities', and immigrants' labor. Starting midcentury with the Lavender Scare--the federal government's massive purge of gay people from the Civil Service--the book traces how workplaces opened to gay workers, albeit unevenly, over the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a number of archival sources and interviews, this is a history of the workplace that shows larger structural change while also giving voice to many underrepresented individuals. Throughout, Margot Canaday emphasizes the concept of precariousness, a commonly deployed category within labor studies to designate that expanding category of workers in industrial societies who are detached from permanent, standardized, secure, and protected employment. While women and racial minorities also share this longer history of precarious work, the LGBT experience was a particularly powerful precedent for the changing character of economic life at the end of the 20th century. Despite that, the book shows that workplaces were surprisingly responsive to demands from gay employees for protection and benefits. Canaday shows that business was out ahead of both the government and labor unions in offering antidiscrimination protection and domestic partner benefits to gay workers. The final part of the book traces how gay rights came to be the most marketized/privatized civil rights social movement and how we should consider the gay experience in the workplace not as marginal or atypical but as central and predictive for all workers"--

A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America

Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, Margot Canaday positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America.

Rather than finding that many midcentury employers tried to root out gay employees, Canaday sees an early version of “don’t ask / don’t tell”: in all kinds of work, as long as queer workers were discreet, they were valued for the lower wages they could be paid, their contingency, their perceived lack of familial ties, and the ease with which they could be pulled in and pushed out of the labor market. Across the socioeconomic spectrum, they were harbingers of post-Fordist employment regimes we now associate with precarity. While progress was not linear, by century’s end some gay workers rejected their former discretion, and some employers eventually offered them protection unattained through law. Pushed by activists at the corporate grass roots, business emerged at the forefront of employment rights for sexual minorities. It did so, at least in part, in response to the way that queer workers aligned with, and even prefigured, the labor system of late capitalism.

Queer Career shows how LGBT history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past.

Recenzijas

"Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History, Business History Association" "Co-Winner of the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, Labor and Working-Class History Association" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in North American and US History, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the LGBTQ+ Studies Lammy Award, Lambda Literary" "This is the rare academic book that brought tears to my eyes thanks to its poignancy, rather than out of boredom. It serves as a model of how the history of neoliberalism could and should be written: with concerted attention to categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and their interaction, rendered with sensitivity and attentive to the subjectivity and dignity of the historical actors it portrays."---Lily Geismer, Chronicle of Higher Education "Queer Career sets out to reveal an experience of exploitation and a history of rights strugglesambiguous as all such struggles are. What it shows beyond this is the possibility, in these origins, of a new language of labor."---Gabriel Winant, Modern American History "Stunning. . . . The analytic pay-off of Canadays narrative is enormous. Her discovery of the postwar bargain and its decline should transform the narrative of postwar liberalism. . . . As powerful as Canadays arguments are, the triumph of this book is in the individual stories it tells. Queer Career is, first and foremost, a book about the lives of working people."---Reuel Schiller, Jotwell "A fascinating and thought-provoking look into the relationship between sexual orientation and employment." * Library Journal * "A significant contribution to studies of work. [ Queer Career] interrogates how work has shaped the lives of queer workers and demonstrates how work can be simultaneously empowering and exploitative."---Patti Giuffre, American Journal of Sociology "Margot Canaday breaks new ground through this history of gay and lesbian workers in modern US history. . . . [ A]n excellent, much-needed corrective to a historiography thatwith important exceptionshas eschewed the history of queer workers. Canaday balances her systemic analysis by weaving in the voices and experiences of individual gay and lesbian workers, which helps to humanize this history and make abundantly clear the importance of work to the lives of queer people."---Sara Smith-Silverman, American Historical Review

Introduction 1(32)
PART I GAY LABOR
33(72)
Chapter 1 "The Homosexual Does Cope Fairly Successfully with the Straight World": Defining Gay Labor at Midcentury
35(34)
Chapter 2 "The Ones Who Had Nothing to Lose": Days and Nights in the Queer Work World
69(36)
PART II LAW AND LIBERATION
105(80)
Chapter 3 "I Have Brought the Very Government ... to Its Knees": The Campaign to End the Ban on Federal Employment
107(37)
Chapter 4 "Trouble" Followed "Revolutionary Action": Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Work
144(41)
PART III CIVIL RIGHTS IN A NEOLIBERAL AGE
185(79)
Chapter 5 "Discrimination Engendered an Epidemic All of Its Own": The AIDS Crisis on the Job
187(40)
Chapter 6 Making the "Business Case": Gay Rights Inside the Post-Fordist Corporation
227(37)
Epilogue 264(23)
Acknowledgments 287(6)
Index 293
Margot Canaday is professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton).