Workplace, Labor, & Business

Work is where we spend much of our lives, and for LGBTQ+ people it has long been a place of both struggle and transformation. The Workplace, Labor, & Business category brings together books that explore how queer lives intersect with jobs, unions, professions, capitalism, and economic power, from factory floors and offices to boardrooms, startups, and the gig economy.

Here you’ll find titles on labor history, workers’ rights, and organizing movements that include or center LGBTQ+ voices, alongside books examining discrimination, visibility, and survival in the workplace. This category also highlights queer entrepreneurs, professionals, and thinkers who have reshaped business culture, challenged corporate norms, and imagined more equitable ways of working.

Whether you’re interested in labor activism, workplace justice, business leadership, economic history, or the everyday realities of being queer on the job, these books reveal how work, money, and power shape queer lives, and how queer people, in turn, have reshaped the world of work.