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Ryan Patrick Murphy - Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice - 9781439909881 - V9781439909881
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Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice

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Description for Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice Hardback. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

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 ... Read more

From the political economic consequences of activism to the dynamics that facilitated the rise of what Murphy calls the “family values economy” to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Deregulating Desire emphasizes the enduring importance of social justice for flight attendants in the twenty-first century.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Series
Sexuality Studies
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439909881
SKU
V9781439909881
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ryan Patrick Murphy
Ryan Patrick Murphy—a former San Francisco–based flight attendant for United Airlines and Council Representative for Association of Flight Attendants–CWA Council 11—is Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

Reviews for Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice
"Deregulating Desire is a stunning cultural analysis of political economy that explicates both the rise of neoliberal economic policies within the airline industry and flight attendants' creative, activist response. Ryan Patrick Murphy shows us how the 'family values economy' came to operate and how flight attendants exploited the fissures within it. At this moment of divergent political responses to economic emergency, Murphy's tale ... Read more

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