>Can you (or anyone else) recommend any books on gender & sexuality in
>the labor movement?
>
>-Alec
Alec:
I don't think anyone responded to your request. On gays in the labor movement see the last chapter of Nicola Field's *Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homophobia* (Pluto, 1995), which has examples from Britain and the US. In the US there is a national organization called Pride at Work (P.O. Box 65893, Washington, DC 20035-I couldn't find a website). A few years ago their San Francisco affiliate (then called the Lesbian/Gay Labor Alliance) published a scrapbook of documents relating to gays and labor called *Solidarity in Action*. Several general histories of the gay movement contain mentions of gays and labor, but I don't know of a book just about that issue (a serious gap).
There is more on women and the labor movement, for example Sheila Lewenhak, *Women and the Trade Unions* (1977) and Lindsey German, *Sex, Class and Socialism* (Bookmarks, 1994). These both deal mainly with Britain. A case study of women in the US labor movement is *From Sky Girl to Flight Attendant: Women and the Making of a Union* (Cornell, 1982) by Georgia Panter Nielsen. Also check out the AFL-CIO website: http://www.aflcio.org/women/.
Phil Gasper ptrg at sirius.com 415-522-1895