{"product_id":"shift-changes","title":"Shift Changes","description":"The hidden stories of LGBTQ  trades workers and the lives labor createsShift Changes presents the often-overlooked realities faced by LGBTQ  identifying trades professionals and the visceral consequences of our workplace environments that integrate into our bodies and produce our identities and relationships. At a time when most people spend more waking hours at work than anywhere else, M. Benitez challenges readers to consider how labor extends far beyond the job site and into our innermost lives and identities.   Centered on the experiences of LGBTQ  trades workers in the Pacific Northwest, Shift Changes offers a rare window into the lives of electricians, welders, mechanics, ironworkers, and other professionals whose workplaces pressure them to conform to normative gender expressions while numbing them to harassment and slowly shaping them in a way that replicates this violence. Tracing how these workplace cultures are created, endured, and resisted, Benitez reveals the relationship between labor and selfhood: as we produce the labor that keeps capitalism running, the labor of capitalism produces us.   Grounded in their own experiences as a former welder and six years of ethnographic research with queer trades workers, Benitez details the survival strategies, alienation, and necessary turn to community formation that is widely experienced by marginalized workers. Resoundingly liberatory and theoretically innovative, Shift Changes offers a vital framework for understanding and metabolizing these stories into collective activism and systemic transformation.   Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682678841717,"sku":"9781517920777","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57680123036021,"sku":"9781517920760","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/shift-changes","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}