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Emerging from Turbulence : Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (207 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442248557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Emerging from TurbulenceDDC classification:
  • 338.7629130973
LOC classification:
  • HD9711.U63B63294
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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