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    Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
    Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
    Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
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    Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America

    By Miriam Frank

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    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 activists, Frank provides an inclusive history of the convergence of labor and LGBT interests. She carefully details how queer caucuses in local unions introduced domestic partner benefits and union-based AIDS education for health care workers-innovations that have been influential across the U.S. workforce. Out in the Union also examines organizing drives at queer workplaces, campaigns for marriage equality, and other gay civil rights issues to show the enduring power of LGBT workers. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTemple University Press
    Release dateJun 13, 2014
    ISBN9781439911419
    Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
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    Miriam Frank

    Miriam Frank previously published an acclaimed memoir, My Innocent Absence: Exile on Five Continents, which was longlisted for the Ackeley Prize 2011. She was one of the first senior lecturers in anaesthesia at London Hospital and was married to the painter Rudolf Kortokraks, Oskar Kokoschka's designated successor at the School of Vision. Schooled in Mexico, she trained as a doctor in New Zealand, lived in Israel, and moved to Islington, London, when she met her husband. She has translated works from the Spanish and currently lives in Battersea, South West London.

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