On the Ground : Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Working Class in American History
ISBN-10
0252076273
ISBN-13
9780252076275
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 11th, 2009
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
462 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 2.10 cms
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The challenges and successes of unionization at four U.S. airlines, with a focus on baggage handlers
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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