Collision Course

Informationen zum Autor Joseph A. McCartin is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University and Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Klappentext Collision Course sets the 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization's strike within a vivid panorama of the rise of the world's busiest air-traffic control system. Through the stories of controllers like Mike Rock and Jack Maher, who were galvanized into action by that disaster and went on to found PATCO, it describes the efforts of those who sought to make the airways safer and fought to win a secure place in the American middleclass.

Auteur
Joseph A. McCartin is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University and Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

• Prologue: Getting the Picture

• 1. The Main Bang
• 2. Pushing Back
• 3. Wheels Up
• 4. Confliction
• 5. Course Correction
• 6. Flight Ceiling
• 7. Turbulence
• 8. Down the Tubes
• 9. Pilot Error
• 10. Dead Reckoning
• 11. Trading Paint
• 12. Aluminum Rain
• 13. Debris Field

• Epilogue: Black Box

• Acknowledgments