"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
