Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Gender, Culture and Commercial Airways

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 1-20

3. The Gendering of Civil Aviation, 1919–24

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 21-47

4. Thoroughly Modern Milieu: The Feminine Presence in the Airways

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 48-81

5. Their Finest Hour: Mrs Miniver and the World at War

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 82-106

6. Angels With Dirty Faces: Strategies of ‘Normalization’ and ‘Equity’ in the Immediate Post-War Era

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 107-136

7. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Jet Age and the Eroticization of the Female Employee

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 137-172

8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards an Employment Equity Discourse

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 173-204

9. From Here to Eternity: Making Sense of the Gendering of Organizational Culture

   • Albert J. Mills

   Pages 205-224

10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-311

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This book provides an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop and change. The author presents a historical account of the discriminatory practices of airline companies British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways. It covers the years 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the treatment of female employees.

• gender
• organization
• organizations
• strategy

ALBERT J. MILLS is Director of the Sobey PhD in Management at Saint Mary's University, Canada. His research focuses on the impact of organizational forms and theorization of human potentiality, with a particular interest in workplace discrimination. His work includes study of the new forms of industrial conflict in the UK, Worker Occupations and the North East Experiences (1976), the effect of organizational rules on workplace behaviour, Organizational Rules (1991), and gender discrimination at work, Gender and Organizational Analysis (1992), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot (1997), Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations (2002) and Identity Politics at Work (2004). His current research focuses on the impact of call centres on identity work in Canada and India.

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