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)
By:
Michael Round, H. R. Viswanath Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 420g ISBN:9780815335061 ISBN 10: 0815335067 Series:Garland Studies in the History of American Labor Pages: 140 Publication Date:01 October 1999 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
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;
