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

by 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'...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199325200

ISBN13:9780199325207

Release Date:September 2013

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:504 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"

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History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Transportation

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