DEREGULATING DESIRE Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice by Murphy, Ryan Patrick - 2016

Temple University Press, 2016. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Temple Univ Pr, 2016. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.60 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. In 1975, National Airlines was shut down for 127 days when flight attendants went on strike to protest long hours and low pay. Activists at National and many other U.S. airlines sought to win political power and material resources for people who live beyond the boundary of the traditional family. In Deregulating Desire, Ryan Patrick Murphy, a former flight attendant himself, chronicles the efforts of single women, unmarried parents, lesbians and gay men, as well as same-sex couples to make the airline industry a crucible for social change in the decades after 1970.Murphy situates the flight attendant union movement in the history of debates about family and work. Each chapter offers an economic and a cultural analysis to show how the workplace has been the primary venue to enact feminist and LGBTQ politics.From the political economic consequences of activism to the dynamics that facilitated the rise of what Murphy calls the "family values economy" to the… Read More

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