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On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History)

Liesl Miller Orenic

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History). To get started finding On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History). To get started finding On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry (Working Class in American History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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