On the Ground

Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWorking Class in American History
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252076275

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List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 11. The U.S. Airlines through the 1930s 72. Airline Work during World War II 493. Organizing the Airline Industry, 1945-49 714. Bargaining in Prosperity, 1949-59 1325. On the Ramp in the 1950s and 1960s 1556. Militance and the Mutual Aid Pact, 1960-70 191Epilogue: Deregulation and Beyond 217List of Interviews 225Manuscript Collections and Specialized Libraries 227Notes 229Index 271

“Provides a detailed history of institutions, regulatory regimes, technological evolution, and the development of the division of labor, wages and working conditions in the airline industry. This is an extremely useful work.”--EH.Net "An important study."--Enterprise and Society "An important study ... which should interest union activities and academics."--Enterprise & Society "This wonderful treatment of an underexamined area of labor history is able to cut through mounds of tangled and confusing material to reveal a clear picture of how workers coped with an ever-changing industry. . . . An important book."--Labor Studies Journal "With sympathy and careful detail, Orenic offers a well-documented counterpoint to the story of post-World War II labor complacency by showing how airline ground crews used militant tactics to build their unions in the 1950s and 1960s."--Business History Review