Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America

Joseph A McCartin

ISBN 10: 0199325200 / ISBN 13: 9780199325207

Verlag: Oxford University Press September 2013, 2013

Book has minor 'wave' to it but tight and clean. Illus. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1020551

Inhaltsangabe:

In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers' inability to negotiate with their employer over vital issues. PATCO's fall not only ushered in a long period of labor decline; it also served as a harbinger of the campaign against public sector unions that now roils American politics.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Joseph A. McCartin is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University and Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air ...
Verlag: Oxford University Press September 2013
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Trade Paperback
Zustand: Very Good