Title: On the ground
First published: 2009
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. Examining company and union records as well as interviews with former baggage handlers, 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."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Airlines, History, Employees, Labor unions, Airlines, employees, Labor unions, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HD6515.A427 O74 2009