Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore

Emerging from Turbulence

Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today

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Produktbeschreibung

Emerging from Turbulence tells the stories of Boeing workers whose lives underwent dramatic shifts as a result of recent changes in the American economy. Workers' own words show the shifting landscape of the American workplace as pension funds evaporate, corporations buy each other out, and companies like Boeing stop seeing themselves as a family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780810895799
• ISBN-10: 081089579X
• Artikelnr.: 49445080

Autorenporträt

Leon Grunberg is professor emeritus of sociology, University of Puget Sound. Sarah Moore is chair and professor of psychology, University of Puget Sound. Together they are the authors of Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Boeing's Transformation and America's New Social Contract Part I:
Retired from Boeing 2. Heritage Boeing 3. No Longer Family Part II: Still
Employed at Boeing 4. Still Family 5. I Work to Live 6. Permanently Scarred
7. Attached to Work, Detached from Company Part III: Newly Hired at Boeing
8. A Bright Future 9. A Second Career 10. Not What I Expected 11. Accepting
the New Reality Part IV: Conclusion 12. Implications of the New Social
Contract Appendix Notes Index