Grounded: Reagan and the PATCO Crash

by Michael Round

Overview

This book analyses the rhetorical background and strategies of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and those of Ronald Reagan in reference to the 1981 strike. Was firing 11,000 federal employees the only option, or the best option available? The work examines the applicable federal statute, which provided and encouraged more leeway than the administration exercised; the stormy relations between the controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration; and the development of the rhetorical persona of Ronald Reagan, a persona favoring epideictic over deliberative rhetoric.
(Ph.D. dissertation,University of Pittsburgh, 1993; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317733812
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/28/2015
Series:	Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	140
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Michael Round

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Part 2 Discussion; Chapter 1 Public Sector Collective Bargaining; Chapter 2 The Federal Aviation Administration; Chapter 3 Patco; Chapter 4 Statute and Statutory Discretion; Chapter 5 Reaganpart3 Conclusion;