Description: Collision Course : Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America, Paperback by McCartin, Joseph A., ISBN 0199325200, ISBN-13 9780199325207, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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. PATCOs 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.
Now available in paperback, Collision Course sets the strike within a vivid panorama of the rise of the worlds busiest air-traffic control system. It begins with an arresting account of the 1960 midair collision over New York that cost 134 lives and exposed the weaknesses of an overburdened 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 middle class. It climaxes with the
story of Reagan and the controllers, who surprisingly endorsed the Republican on the promise that he would address their grievances. That brief, fateful alliance triggered devastating miscalculations that changed America, forging patterns that still govern the nations labor politics.
Written with an eye for detail and a grasp of the vast consequences of the PATCO conflict for both air travel and Americas working class, Collision Course is a stunning achievement.
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Book Title: Collision Course : Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, an
Number of Pages: 504 Pages
Publication Name: Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 226 mm
Subject: Economics, History
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 598 g
Author: Joseph A. Mccartin
Item Width: 147 mm
Format: Paperback
