On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry

by Liesl Miller Orenic

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076273
• ISBN13: 9780252076275
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"