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Author Mills, Albert J., 1945-

Title Sex, strategy, and the stratosphere : airlines and the gendering of organizational culture / by Albert J. Mills
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description xvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Gender, culture and commercial airways -- 2. The gendering of civil aviation, 1919-24 -- 3. Thoroughly modern milieu : the feminine presence in the airways -- 4. Their finest hour : Mrs. Miniver and the world at war -- 5. Angels with dirty faces : strategies of 'normalization' and 'equity' in the immediate post-war era -- 6. The invasion of the body snatchers : the jet age and the eroticization of the female employee -- 7. Close encounters of the third kind : towards an employment equity discourse -- 8. From here to eternity : making sense of the gendering of organizational culture
Summary "This book bridges a crucial gap in the literature on gender and organizational culture by providing an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop, are maintained but also change over time. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extensive archival material, the author presents an historical account of the way specific discriminatory practices developed and changed over the life of three airline companies--British Airways, Air Canada, and Pan American Airways. The book covers the period 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the hiring and treatment of female employees but the focus is on gender in the broadest sense of the word (looking at the social construction of male and female sexuality; heterosexuality and homosexuality). Gender is explored through analysis of organizational symbolism, workplace practices and organizational structuring." -- BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject British Airways.
Air Canada.
Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Airlines.
Corporate culture -- Case studies.
Feminist theory.
Sex role in the work environment -- Case studies.
Sexual division of labor -- Case studies.
Women employees.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2005057922
ISBN 1403998574 (hbk.)
9781403998576 (hbk.)
Other Titles Airlines and the gendering of organizational culture