On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
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...
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The challenges and successes of unionization at four U.S. airlines, with a focus on baggage handlers.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 11 The U.S. Airlines through the 1930s 72 Airline Work during World War II 493 Organizing the Airline Industry, 1945-49 714 Bargaining in Prosperity, 1949-59 1325 On the Ramp in the 1950s and 1960s 1556 Militance and the Mutual Aid Pact, 1960-70 191Epilogue: Deregulation and Beyond 217List of Interviews 225Manuscript Collections and Specialized Libraries 227Notes 229Index 271
\ From the Publisher \ "An important study ... which should interest union activities and academics."--Enterprise & Society\ \ \
