Costumed for a fateful day : inflight work organization and social relationship on commerical jets

The paper presents a partial ethnography from the work setting of commercial jet aircraft. Data was collected through participant observation in the work role of stewardess, mostly on prestige overseas flights. The flight is therefore the unit of study and has been treated as a social occasion for...

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Main Author: Nowakowsky, Mary Ann
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34255