Nell McShane Wulfhart
Autor von The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
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Those more familiar with labor organizations/labor relations and unions may understand parts of the book better than I did. It made me think--my grandfather (He's gone now.) used to teach about that topic, but yet I seem to know little about it.
In the beginning, the job was meant for young, "perfect", single women--with age limits and weight requirements, mandatory retirement upon marriage. Uniforms were determined by the airlines (and some of the uniforms sound pretty hideous!). Changes occurred gradually and this is the story of how that happened.
Deregulation of the airline industry seems to have changed the profession more--that is discussed at the very end of the book but not in as much detail as the other changes that came before that time.… (mehr)