Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers

by Edward S. Greenberg, Sarah Moore, Leon Grunberg

Book Overview

This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women, outsourcing, mergers, lean production, and rampant technological change. Drawing on a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300154615
• ISBN13: 9780300154610
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"