Queer Career

""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 struggles—ambiguous 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 Canaday’s narrative is enormous. Her discovery of the postwar bargain and its decline should transform the narrative of postwar liberalism. . . . As powerful as Canaday’s 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