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Out in the union a labor history of queer America / Miriam Frank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Miriam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual orientation--United States.
- Sexual orientation.
- Gay labor union members--United States.
- Gay labor union members.
- Gay liberation movement--United States.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Labor unions--United States.
- Labor unions.
- Gay people--Employment--United States.
- Gay people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Out in the Union tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. Miriam Frank shrewdly chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s. She documents coming out on the job and in the union as well as issues of discrimination and harassment, and the creation of alliances between unions and LGBT communities. Featuring in-depth interviews with LGBT and labor activist
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; A Brief Chronology of LGBT Labor History, 1965-2013; Prologue: Love and Work and Queer Survival; I. Coming Out; 1. From Construction to Couture: Coming Out in Unionized Workplaces; 2. Outsiders as Insiders: Sexual Diversity and Union Leadership; II. Coalition Politics; 3. From Common Enemies to Common Causes: The Labor Movement and the Gay Movement in Action and Coalition; 4. The Heart of the Matter: Union Politics, Queer Issues, and the Life of the Local; III. Conflict and Transformation; 5. Organizing the Gay Unorganized: Talking Union, Talking Queer
- Epilogue: When Connie Married PhyllisNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439911419
- 143991141X
- OCLC:
- 883645001
- Publisher Number:
- heb40346 hdl
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