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On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History)
by Liesl Miller Orenic
Synopses & Reviews On the Ground charts labor relations in the airline industry, unraveling the story of how baggage handlers--classified as unskilled workers--built tense but mutually useful alliances with their skilled coworkers such as aircraft mechanics and made tremendous gains in wages and working conditions, even in the era of supposedly "complacent" labor in the 1950s and 1960s. Liesl Miller Orenic explains how airline jobs on the ground were constructed, how workers chose among unions, and how federal labor policies as well as industry regulation both increased and hindered airline workers' bargaining power. Synopsis: The challenges and successes of unionization at four U.S. airlines, with a focus on baggage handlers About the Author Liesl Miller Orenic is an associate professor of history and the director of American studies at Dominican University.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780252076275
- Subtitle:
- Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
- Author:
- Orenic, Liesl Miller
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- Subject:
- Aviation - History
- Subject:
- Labor & Industrial Relations - General
- Subject:
- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Employees
- Subject:
- Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions
- Subject:
- Airlines - Employees - Labor unions -
- Subject:
- Airlines -- United States -- History.
- Copyright:
- 2009
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Working Class in American History
- Publication Date:
- May 2009
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- Professional and scholarly
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 281
- Dimensions:
- 9.00 x 6.00 in
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