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

Name: Collision Course Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America
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ISBN: 9780199325207

ISBN-10: 0199325200

ISBN-13: 9780199325207

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joseph A. McCartin

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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.Collision…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.90" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.782

Joseph A. McCartin is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. He is author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (from the University of North Caro