001480183 000__ 05807nam\a22010335i\4500 001480183 001__ 1480183 001480183 003__ DE-B1597 001480183 005__ 20231026035129.0 001480183 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480183 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480183 008__ 230918t20072007nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480183 020__ $$a9780814784518 001480183 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814784518.001.0001$$2doi 001480183 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548669 001480183 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480183 0410_ $$aeng 001480183 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480183 050_4 $$aHD8039.A432 001480183 072_7 $$aSOC032000$$2bisacsh 001480183 08204 $$a387.7/42$$222/eng 001480183 1001_ $$aWhitelegg, Drew, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480183 24510 $$aWorking the Skies :$$bThe Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant /$$cDrew Whitelegg. 001480183 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2007] 001480183 264_4 $$c©2007 001480183 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480183 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480183 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480183 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480183 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480183 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction: "We're Here to Save Your Ass, Not Kiss It." -- $$t1 Briefing: From Stewardess to Flight Attendant -- $$t2 Departure -- $$t3 Safety Checks -- $$t4 In-Flight Entertainment? -- $$t5 Cruising Altitude -- $$t6 The Layover -- $$t7 The Return -- $$t8 Debriefing -- $$tNotes -- $$tSelected Bibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001480183 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480183 520__ $$aGet ready for takeoff. The life of the flight attendant, a.k.a., stewardess, was supposedly once one of glamour, exotic travel and sexual freedom, as recently depicted in such films as Catch Me If You Can and View From the Top. The nostalgia for the beautiful, carefree and ever helpful stewardess perhaps reveals a yearning for simpler times, but nonetheless does not square with the difficult, demanding and sometimes dangerous job of today's flight attendants. Based on interviews with over sixty flight attendants, both female and male labor leaders, and and drawing upon his observations while flying across the country and overseas, Drew Whitelegg reveals a much more complicated profession, one that in many ways is the quintessential job of the modern age where life moves at record speeds and all that is solid seems up in the air.Containing lively portraits of flight attendants, both current and retired, this book is the first to show the intimate, illuminating, funny, and sometimes dangerous behind-the-scenes stories of daily life for the flight attendant. Going behind the curtain, Whitelegg ventures into first-class, coach, the cabin, and life on call for these men and women who spend week in and week out in foreign cities, sleeping in hotel rooms miles from home. Working the Skies also elucidates the contemporary work and labor issues that confront the modern worker: the demands of full-time work and parenthood; the downsizing of corporate America and the resulting labor lockouts; decreasing wages and hours worked; job insecurity; and the emotional toll of a high stress job. Given the events of 9/11, flight attendants now have an especially poignant set of stressful concerns to manage, both for their own safety as well as for those they serve, the passengers. Flight attendants, originally registered nurses charged with attending to passengers' medical needs, now find themselves wearing the hats of therapist, security guard and undercover agent. This last set of tasks pushing some, as Whitelegg shows, out of the business altogether. 001480183 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480183 546__ $$aIn English. 001480183 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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