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Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk

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An edition of Dead Reckoning (2021)

Dead Reckoning

Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk

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An ethnographic study of the Boston sector of the American air traffic control system to investigate the sources of its safety record.

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
694

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Subjects
Air-traffic control, air transportation, bureaucracy, large-scale coordination, group solidarity, politics, training, unions
Places
Logan International Airport (Mass.), Bedford Airport (Mass)
Times
1980-2020

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Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk
2023, University of Chicago Press
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2021, University of Chicago Press
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First Sentence

"Reckoning, according to the dictionary, is a cognitive activity: an act or instance of taking into account, calculating, estimating."

Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
I. Beginnings
1. Dead Reckoning
2. History as Cause: System Emergence, System Effects
II. Producing Controllers
3. From Skill Acquisition to Expertise
4. Embodiment: The Social Shaping of Controllers
III. Boundary Work: Airspace, Place, and Dead Reckoning
5. Boston Center and Bedford Tower
6. The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Boston Tower
IV. Emotional Labor, Emotion Work
7. Mistake and Error: Emotional Labor
8. Risk and Stress: Emotion Work
V. “That Little Frisson of Terror”
9. September 11
10. The War on Terror: Policing the Sky
11. Symbolic Boundaries: Distinction, Occupational Community, and Moral Work
VI. System Effects, Boundary Work, and Risk
12. The Age of Automation: 2002-Present
13. Continuities, Change, and Persistence
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Edition Notes

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Chicago, USA
Copyright Date
2021

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
387.7/404260973—dc23
Library of Congress
TL725.3.T7V384 2021, TL725

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e-book
Pagination
694p
Number of pages
694

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OL34709681M
ISBN 13
9780226796543

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