Queer Career - Margot Canaday

Queer Career

Sexuality and Work in Modern America

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2023
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20595-3 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
A 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.

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).

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-691-20595-7 / 0691205957
ISBN-13 978-0-691-20595-3 / 9780691205953
Zustand Neuware
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