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1960s
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aircraft mechanics
alliance
American airline industry
Author_Liesl Miller Orenic
baggage handlers
bargain
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coworkers
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federal labor policy
government documents
industry newspapers
job
labor
labor history
labor relations
oral history
organized labor
power
regulation
service clerks
skilled workers
struggle
U.S. history
union
unskilled workers
wage
working conditions
Product details
- ISBN 9780252076275
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jun 2009
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Liesl Miller Orenic is an associate professor of history and the director of American studies at Dominican University.
