Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines

ISBN: 9780671695385

定价: 90.00

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From Publishers Weekly In this tense， event-by-event account of the crash of Eastern Airlines in the late 1980s， as suspenseful as an air-disaster movie， Business Week reporter Bernstein presents Lorenzo as an obsessed anti-unionist. The Texas-based aviation empire he founded was crowned by the takeover of ailing Eastern Airlines， and his treatment of employees led to bitter， prolonged strikes and lawsuits that threatened to cripple national transportation. Union efforts on the employees' behalf to secure a purchaser for the near-bankrupt airline were thwarted by Lorenzo， who， in accordance with a 1990 court order， was removed from management in favor of a trustee， an order that the author considers a watershed in the labor policy of the Republican era. Author tour. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information， Inc. From Library Journal This story of the acquisition of Eastern Airlines by the Texas Air Corporation is a fascinating expose of management ineptitude， likely to become a classic case study. Bernstein gathered his material while reporting on labor matters for Business Week ， and he focuses on the personalities in the deal. As he tells it， many important decisions that resulted in Texas Air gaining control of 15 percent of the air traffic in the United States were either misjudgments or were done in the heat of emotion. While Bernstein is critical of both labor and management， it is clear that he believes management caused a great deal of unnecessary misfortune for itself. This is a good companion to The Battle for Eastern Airlines ， a video from PBS's excellent Frontline series. For more information， contact PBS's video service， 703-739-5380.-Ed. -- Joseph Barth， U.S. Military Acad. Lib.， West Point， N.Y.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information， Inc. See all Editorial Reviews