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050		4	_aHF5549.5 .S47 _b.C363 2023
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100	1		_aCanaday, Margot,
245	1	0	_aQueer career : _bsexuality and work in modern America / _cMargot Canaday.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2023]
300			_avii, 302 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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, instead directing 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSexual minorities _xCivil rights _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSexual minorities _xEmployment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSexual minorities _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zUnited States.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aCanaday, Margot. _tQueer career _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2023] _z9780691215310 _w(DLC) 2022037234.
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