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Tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. This book 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.

Table of 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 Phyllis

Notes

Bibliography

Out in the Union

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      Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
      Published 13 June 2014
      ISBN-13 9781439911396
      978-1439911396
      ISBN-10 1439911398
      Also in:
      Industrial relations, occupational health

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. This book 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.

      Table of 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 Phyllis

      Notes

      Bibliography

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