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OverviewA masterful history of the queer 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 queer history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margot CanadayPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691205953ISBN 10: 0691205957 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 31 January 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""Finalist for the PROSE Award in North American and US History, Association of American Publishers"" ""A fascinating and thought-provoking look into the relationship between sexual orientation and employment."" * Library Journal * ""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" """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"" ""A fascinating and thought-provoking look into the relationship between sexual orientation and employment."" * Library Journal * ""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" A fascinating and thought-provoking look into the relationship between sexual orientation and employment. * Library Journal * """A fascinating and thought-provoking look into the relationship between sexual orientation and employment."" * Library Journal *" """A fascinating and thought-provoking look into the relationship between sexual orientation and employment."" * Library Journal * ""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" Author InformationMargot Canaday is professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America(Princeton). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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