Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America

by Joseph A. McCartin

Book Overview

In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199325200
• ISBN13: 9780199325207
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"