Emerging from Turbulence : Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today.
Grunberg, Leon.
Emerging from Turbulence : Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (207 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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.
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.
9781442248557
Aircraft industry - United States - Employees.
Electronic books.
HD9711.U63B63294
338.7629130973
Emerging from Turbulence : Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (207 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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.
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.
9781442248557
Aircraft industry - United States - Employees.
Electronic books.
HD9711.U63B63294
338.7629130973