@article{436313,
      recid = {436313},
      author = {McCartin, Joseph Anthony.},
      title = {Collision course Ronald Reagan, the air traffic  controllers, and the strike that changed America /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 472 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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'  inability to negotiate with their employer over vital  issues. PATCO's fall not only ushered in a long period of  labor decline; it also served as a harbinger of the  campaign against public sector unions that now roils  American politics."--Book jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436313},
}