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Orenic, Liesl Miller.

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"On the ramp": Ground service workers in the American airline industry, 1930--1970.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"On the ramp": Ground service workers in the American airline industry, 1930--1970./
Author:	Orenic, Liesl Miller.
Description:	262 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-09, Section: A, page: 3737.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-09A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9986618
ISBN:	9780599939844

"On the ramp": Ground service workers in the American airline industry, 1930--1970.
Orenic, Liesl Miller.

"On the ramp": Ground service workers in the American airline industry, 1930--1970. - 262 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-09, Section: A, page: 3737.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carnegie Mellon University, 2000.

Using company, union, government and industry sources and oral interviews, this dissertation investigates the identity formation of cargo and baggage handlers at three major U.S. airlines, American Airlines, Pan American Airways and Northwest Airlines, between 1930 and 1970. Within the highly gender- and racially-segregated airline industry, baggage handlers, or fleet service clerks, developed their own masculine blue-collar identity and work culture through their interactions with airline management, labor unions, the state and airline technology. This investigation examines the ways ideas of class, race and gender became parts of this identity.

ISBN: 9780599939844Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

"On the ramp": Ground service workers in the American airline industry, 1930--1970.
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520 $a In the 1930s, job opportunities existed almost exclusively for white males and the formalization of duties and job categories set the stage for later workplace conflict. Airline participation in World War II led to tremendous expansion of the workforce and resulted in intensified labor organizing activities and other forms of resistance among ground workers. Despite the temporary inroads made by African Americans and white women, young white male fleet service clerks developed their own workplace culture in the expanding and formalizing industry. They made important choices between AFL and CIO unions, which reflected their understanding of their position within the industry; these men made conscious alliances with skilled aircraft mechanics and black porters and cleaners to protect their position between these two groups. After the war, the corporate airlines used welfare capitalist programs and service-oriented training programs in attempts to cultivate company loyalty among baggage handlers. Fleet service clerks utilized the power of their position to affect working conditions and maintain dignity and sometimes participated in strikes crossing skill and race lines. Uncertainty over class and craft issues under the Railway Labor Act exacerbated labor tensions during the period. The introduction of jets and the impact of Civil Rights legislation brought significant change to the ramp. A trickle of integration challenged white fleet service clerks' perception of their work. They subsumed race as part of working-class "whiteness," while resisting the inequalities and dangers of an expanding and increasingly impersonal industry through contractual regulations, pilferage and informal job action.
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