Come Fly The World by Julia Cooke
The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
A lively cultural and labor history that follows the women who staffed international air travel in the jet age, showing how airlines packaged them as glamorous symbols of modernity while subjecting them to strict appearance rules, discriminatory hiring and firing practices, and difficult working conditions; the narrative traces their recruitment, training, exotic routes, daily labor and personal costs, and how, over decades, these women fought back through unions, legal challenges and changing social norms to transform the profession and the industry.
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- 2019
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