LEADER 04710nam 2200889Ia 450 001 9910814767703321 005 20240516125800.0 010 $a0-8147-8451-8 010 $a1-4356-0742-2 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814784518 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479514 035 $a(OCoLC)181158190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10189766 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000274089 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219699 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000274089 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10332345 035 $a(PQKB)10626557 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865942 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10370 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865942 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10189766 035 $a(OCoLC)780425944 035 $a(DE-B1597)548669 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814784518 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479514 100 $a20061213d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorking the skies$b[electronic resource] $ethe fast-paced, disorienting world of the flight attendant /$fDrew Whitelegg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8147-9407-6 311 $a0-8147-9408-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-283) and index. 327 $aWe're here to save your ass, not kiss it -- Briefing : from stewardess to flight attendant -- Departure -- Safety checks -- In-flight entertainment? -- Cruising altitude -- The layover -- The return -- Debriefing. 330 $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. 606 $aFlight attendants$zUnited States 606 $aFlight attendants$zUnited States$vAnecdotes 610 $aContaining. 610 $aattendant. 610 $aattendants. 610 $abehind-the-scenes. 610 $abook. 610 $aboth. 610 $acurrent. 610 $adaily. 610 $adangerous. 610 $afirst. 610 $aflight. 610 $afunny. 610 $ailluminating. 610 $aintimate. 610 $alife. 610 $alively. 610 $aportraits. 610 $aretired. 610 $ashow. 610 $asometimes. 610 $astories. 610 $athis. 615 0$aFlight attendants 615 0$aFlight attendants 676 $a387.7/364 700 $aWhitelegg$b Drew$01712704 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814767703321 996 $aWorking the skies$94105087 997 $aUNINA